The Intercept Bolsters OpenAI Copyright Suit with More Evidence

The Intercept Media Inc. amended its complaint against OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to add examples of text “regurgitations” demonstrating the firms removed author information from articles in data sets used to train its generative AI tools.

Over 6,000 URLs from The Intercept are included in one training set used by OpenAI and over 2,000 are in another, according to the amended complaint filed June 21 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint detailed how OpenAI used two sets of algorithms, Dragnet and Newspaper, to strip copyright information from news articles then used ...