Condé Nast, Forbes File Copyright Suit Over Cohere’s AI Training

Feb. 13, 2025, 4:40 PM UTC

Condé Nast and a host of other media companies joined the ranks of publishers suing over artificial intelligence training, accusing Canadian AI firm Cohere Inc. of feeding its large-language model on their outlets’ articles without permission.

Cohere infringed the companies’ copyrights and trademarks by crawling news sites to copy articles and attributing inaccurate AI outputs to the outlets, according to the complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Among the plaintiffs suing Cohere are Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., which does business as Condé Nast; Atlantic Monthly Group LLC; Forbes Media LLC; Guardian ...

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