Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI for ChatGPT copyright infringement

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Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI for ChatGPT copyright infringement
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OpenAI on Friday for copyright infringement. The joint lawsuit accuses the company of “capitalizing and profiting” from the unauthorized use of their content for. They’re seeking punitive damages from OpenAI, payments for any profits the ChatGPT creator made from using their news articles and a ban on further use of their content.

“OpenAI regularly breaches copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from Canadian media to help develop its products, such as ChatGPT,” the media outlets wrote in a“Hundreds of millions of people around the world rely on ChatGPT to improve their daily lives, inspire creativity, and solve hard problems,” an OpenAI spokesperson wrote.

The Canadian news outlets have joined a long list of companies, individuals, and other organizations that have sued the ChatGPT maker for unauthorized training on their work. That list includes that using publicly available online content falls under the fair use doctrine. The Canadian plaintiffs objected to that view, writing that “journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal.

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