ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces copyright infringement lawsuit in Canada; read the company’s statement here

OpenAI is facing new legal challenges in Canada. Five major Canadian news media companies, including the Globe and Mail, the Canadian Press, Postmedia, Metroland, the Toronto Star and the CBC/Radio-Canada, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement and breach of online terms of use. The lawsuit accuses the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startup of using news articles of these news organisations to train its ChatGPT software without authorisation. The media companies claimed that the San Francisco-based startup was “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly profiting from their work. This case joins a growing number of legal actions against OpenAI and other tech companies by copyright holders concerned about the use of their data in AI development.