OpenAI, Microsoft Demand NYT Prove AI’s Hurting News Business

OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are demanding the New York Times Co. supply documents detailing the newspaper’s claims that the tech companies’ AI models have decreased subscription, licensing, advertising, and affiliate revenue.

Those details are important to analyze if the tech giants’ use of the Times’ content to train AI systems is “fair use” under the Copyright Act, according to OpenAI and Microsoft’s separate letters requesting a pre-motion conference on the documents filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The fourth prong of the fair use doctrine tests whether use of copyrighted content ...