USA Today and its affiliated newspapers sue OpenAI, claiming it copied thousands of articles for AI training without permission.
USA Today Co. is suing OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training data.
The lawsuit seeks over $250 million in damages.
This is part of a broader wave of legal actions against OpenAI.
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USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI's unauthorized use of its content "has done real and continuing" harm to its outlets.
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