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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions

OpenAi and ChatGPT logos.
Litigants including the Toronto Star and the CBC say the AI company ‘unjustly enriched’ itself by using their content. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software.

The suit, filed on Friday in Ontario’s superior court of justice, calls for punitive damages, a share of profits made by OpenAI from using the news organizations’ articles, and an injunction barring the San Francisco-based company from using any of the news articles in the future.

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