Canadian media organisations sue openAI over copyright violations

A coalition of leading Canadian news organisations has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing it of illegally using their copyrighted content to train its models.

The plaintiffs include prominent outlets such as the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, The Canadian Press, Metroland Media, and Postmedia. This marks the first legal action of its kind in Canada.

“Journalism serves the public interest. OpenAI’s use of other companies’ journalism for its own commercial purposes is illegal,” the media group stated collectively, reported by BBC news.