New York Times Files Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Microsoft for Copyright Infringement

Artificial intelligence programs have become a threat to journalism, the lawsuit says.

A graphic related to Chat GPT, developed by OpenAI. Shutterstock

The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, arguing that the technology firms used the newspaper company’s content as a paradigm from which they built their large-language models (LLM).

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that, to construct their generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the defendants copied “millions of The Times’s copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more.”