Canadian news outlets sue OpenAI for copyright breach over use of articles

Five Canadian news media companies have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for breaching copyright and online terms of use by illegally using their news articles to train its software.

News organisations Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC have all filed the lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Friday and is seeking for penalty in terms of any profit that the company made off from using the news articles from the organisation.