Five Canadian media companies are suing OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT creator has breached copyright and online terms of use in order to train the popular chatbot.
The joint lawsuit, filed on Friday in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, follows similar suits brought against OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 by the New York Times, which claimed copyright infringement of news content related to AI systems.
The Canadian outlets – which include the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), are seeking what could amount to billions of dollars in damages, as they have demanded 20,000 Canadian dollars (US$14,700) for each article they claim was illegally scraped and used to train ChatGPT.
“OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners,” the group said in a Friday statement, adding that they’re responsible for the “bulk of Canada’s journalistic content.”
The plaintiffs are also seeking a share of OpenAI’s profits, as well as a halt to the use of future content.
“OpenAI regularly breaches copyright and online terms of use by scraping large swaths of content from…
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