OpenAI, Microsoft Accused of Lifting Journalism to Train AI (1)

The Center for Investigative Reporting has filed the latest copyright lawsuit accusing OpenAI of illegally using its content to train artificial intelligence models.

OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. “copied, used, abridged, and displayed CIR’s valuable content without CIR’s permission or authorization, and without any compensation to CIR,” according to the complaint filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The nonprofit news organization said training datasets like WebText for earlier versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT contained 16,793 distinct URLs from the web domain of the magazine Mother Jones. The CIR—which officially merged with Mother Jones ...