In response, OpenAI stated that its models are trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and international copyright principles. The company also said it collaborates closely with news publishers and offers them easy ways to opt out. The lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount of damages and a permanent injunction to prevent OpenAI from carrying out what the media companies call "unlawful conduct". This lawsuit follows several others filed by authors, visual artists, news outlets, and computer coders against AI companies like OpenAI.
Key takeaways:
- Several top Canadian news companies, including Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada, have sued OpenAI for allegedly using their copyrighted content without permission to train its language models.
- The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of violating Canadian copyright laws and profiting from the misappropriation of their news works.
- OpenAI has responded by stating that its models are trained on publicly available data, grounded in fair use and related international copyright principles, and that it collaborates closely with news publishers.
- This lawsuit is part of a series of similar lawsuits filed by authors, visual artists, news outlets, and computer coders against AI companies like OpenAI, arguing that their original works were used to train AI tools without their permission.