Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training Use

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the companies copied their journalism without permission to train and operate AI products. The complaint, filed September 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks financial damages and an order requiring the destruction of copies, training datasets, or models containing the newspapers’ work. Reuters reported that the filing alleges the companies scraped both newspapers’ websites, including paywalled material, for systems including ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Bing’s AI features.