OpenAI Sued By Leading Canadian News Publishers Over Copyright Issues
In a significant legal development, a coalition of major Canadian news publishers has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the organization behind the generative artificial intelligence system ChatGPT. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of copyright infringement, alleging that the company has used news content from Canadian media outlets without permission to train its AI models.
Background
OpenAI, a leading artificial intelligence research organization, has developed ChatGPT, a language model that generates human-like text based on the data it has been trained on. The model's training involves large datasets, which reportedly include news articles from various publishers. The Canadian news publishers involved in the lawsuit include The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada.
