Three prominent digital news outlets, The Intercept, Raw Story, and AlterNet, have taken legal action against OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Southern District of New York, accuses OpenAI of using thousands of stories from the news outlets to train its chatbots without permission, payment, or credit.
The news organizations claim that OpenAI utilized their journalism to enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT in responding to user queries. This practice, they argue, undermines the financial viability of the news industry and misleads users into believing that the AI-generated responses are original and authoritative.
