Two more newspapers take OpenAI to court

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright infringement, Reuters reported on September 5, putting two more publishers on a docket that already carries the New York Times case. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

According to Channel News Asia, the newspapers allege that the companies’ AI products can reproduce passages from their reporting, closely paraphrase articles and provide answers that reduce users’ need to visit their websites or buy subscriptions. Most same-day coverage reproduces the Reuters report, and neither company’s response has surfaced in it.

Three days earlier, Reuters reported that the U.S. government had backed OpenAI in the New York Times copyright case.