Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement
The Verge Terrence O’Brien ● Covered by 2 sources
Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright claims. They say their reporting was used to train AI and sometimes comes back verbatim.
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The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI, saying the company used their journalism to train its AI models without permission and then reproduced passages from their reporting when people asked questions.
Microsoft is named too. The papers point to Copilot, which is built on OpenAI’s technology, as part of the case they’re bringing in court.
This isn’t an isolated shot across the bow. The suit lands alongside similar cases from The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica, all accusing OpenAI of infringement.
And the list keeps growing. The Seattle Times and Newsday are also joining nearly 400 local newspapers that recently sued the two companies, which tells you this fight is now well beyond a single newsroom grievance.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is what happens when the content machine starts treating journalism like spare parts. The industry spent years warning that “training data” sounds neat until it looks a lot like unpaid reuse, and now the lawsuits are arriving in piles. OpenAI and Microsoft can call it innovation; the publishers call it theft, which is the more useful word here.
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