The growing use of artificial intelligence in news, research and everyday searches has created a difficult question for the media industry: can technology companies use journalism to build commercial AI systems without first obtaining permission from the publishers who produced it? A new lawsuit filed by USA Today Co against OpenAI has brought that dispute into sharper focus. The media corporation and its several newspapers have sued the AI firm, claiming that it has violated copyright laws by copying hundreds of thousands of articles and other materials to train the large language models for ChatGPT.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the US federal court in Manhattan, demands more than $250 million in damages and cessation of the copyright infringement. The allegations have not yet been proven in court, while OpenAI, in turn, did not give a reply to the complaint immediately after the lawsuit, as stated in the report.
