OpenAI Hit With AI Copyright Suit From Regional News Outlets

A group of nine regional news publications sued OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for copyright infringement Wednesday, joining a host of news outlets and authors suing tech companies over how they built and trained AI models.

Publications including the Boston Herald and Hartford Courant said OpenAI used training datasets containing their articles and removed information such as article titles and author names, according to a complaint filed in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York. The papers also accused the company of producing infringing copies of their works through AI outputs, including several examples of such ...