USA Today sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, seeking more than $250 million
USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI
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USA Today and several local newspapers it owns sued OpenAI, alleging that it copied hundreds of thousands of articles without authorization to train AI models, and seeking more than $250 million. The complaint says OpenAI's commercial success is built on large-scale copyright infringement and that it never sought permission to use the content.
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