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The New York Times Reportedly Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training on Its Content
- Occurred
- Dec 27, 2023
- Published
- Dec 28, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The New York Times alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of its articles without permission to train AI models, including ChatGPT. The lawsuit claims the companies scraped and reproduced copyrighted content without compensation, in turn undermining the Times’s business and competing with its journalism. Some AI outputs allegedly regurgitate Times articles verbatim. The lawsuit seeks damages and demands the destruction of AI models trained on its content.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
Deployers
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
Harmed parties
- Writers
- The New York Times
- publishers
- Media organizations
- Journalists
- Journalistic integrity
- Epistemic integrity
Tags
- Training data
- Large language models
- Scraping data
- Copyright
- Copyright infringement
- Fair use
- Unauthorized data training
- Journalism
- Publishing
- Intellectual property theft
- Lawsuit
- OpenAI
- Microsoft
- ChatGPT
- The New York Times
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Lawsuit over unauthorized data scraping and copyright infringement involving AI training data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8