
What you need to know
- Microsoft and OpenAI have been slapped with a lawsuit filed by eight news publishers over copyright infringement issues.
- Copilot and ChatGPT have been spotted reusing content belonging to the publishers without permission, generating incorrect information, and attributing the sites as the source.
- Both companies are still battling several lawsuits in court over copyright-related issues, but OpenAI's Sam Altman admitted that it's impossible to develop ChatGPT-like tools without copyrighted content.