Hundreds of local newspaper publishers in the United States have filed a major lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming that these tech companies were using their journalism without permission to train powerful AI systems.
Filed in a New York federal court, the lawsuit represents 35 publishing companies that operate around 400 newspapers across 33 states. The publishers claim that the companies copied their original reporting to train AI models like ChatGPT without offering any compensation, deepening the financial issues local journalism already faces.
