OpenAI and Microsoft Sued for Mass Copyright Infringement by News Publisher Coalition

A large group of nationwide print and digital publishers has banded together to sue OpenAI and Microsoft for mass copyright infringement. The publishing coalition, comprising nearly 400 news publishers spanning local and regional outlets, alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and reviewed by TheWrap that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot "systematically and secretly crawled" hundreds of news websites to scrape information used to train their AI programs. The publishers said this was done without compensation or . . .