Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement

A coalition of Canada's major news organizations files a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging illegal use of their content to train AI chatbot, ChatGPT. The outlets seek damages and a halt to the alleged misuse of their articles.

The CBC office in Toronto, along with several major news outlets, alleges that OpenAI is unlawfully utilizing their content. Source: New York Times

A coalition of Canada's biggest news organizations, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and CBC, has filed a joint lawsuit against OpenAI in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of illegally scraping and using news content to train their AI chatbot, ChatGPT.

Canadian outlets are seeking billions of dollars in damages and asking for OpenAI to stop such practices in the future.

OpenAI denies the allegations, stating that their models are trained on publicly available data grounded in fair use principles.

The lawsuit follows similar cases in the U.S., highlighting the ongoing legal battles between news publishers and AI companies.

The Canadian law firm representing the media organizations believes they have a strong case related to the training of AI models.