Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto from World news | The Guardian on (#6SK8Z)
Litigants say AI company used their articles to train its popular ChatGPT software without authorization
Canada's major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is strip-mining journalism" and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software.
The suit, filed on Friday in Ontario's superior court of justice, calls for punitive damages, a share of profits made by OpenAI from using the news organizations' articles, and an injunction barring the San Francisco-based company from using any of the news articles in the future.
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