In a landmark lawsuit, Canada's biggest news organizations have banded together to sue ChatGPT creator, OpenAI. They say OpenAI is breaking copyright by using news articles to train their software. The coalition of news companies includes the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Metroland, Canadian Press, Postmedia and the CBC.
The suit seeks punitive damages, payment of any profits made by OpenAI from using news articles, and an injunction barring OpenAI from using any of these news articles in the future. It was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on November 29th. The suit is looking for up $20,000 in damages per article, which puts in the total value of the suit, in the billions of dollars. In 2023, the New York Times filed a similar suit against OpenAI, which is still ongoing. OpenAI is valued at roughly $157 billion.
“Journalism is in the public interest. OpenAI using other companies’ journalism for their own commercial gain is not. It’s illegal,” said a joint statement from the Canadian media organizations. "OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners," the statement added.
The revenue generated by OpenAI is coming at the expense of our local news organizations. This lawsuit is critical in the fight to save local news!
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