Seattle Times and Newsday filed copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of their journalism to train AI models and reproduce content
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement tied to the use of their journalism as training data without permission and the reproduction of passages in AI responses. The cases follow earlier litigation by other publishers and are part of a broader wave of lawsuits challenging how generative AI models are trained and how they generate outputs based on news content.