Canadian news media file copyright infringement suit against OpenAI

By Connie Thiessen A group of Canadian news publishers has come together to file legal action against OpenAI, alleging its content is being used to develop products like generative artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT. CBC/Radio-Canada, The Canadian Press, Torstar, Postmedia, and The Globe and Mail released a joint statement Friday morning following the filing of their copyright infringement suit in Ontario Superior Court, which maintains that Delaware-based OpenAI is “unjustly enriching themselves” at the expense of the news media companies. The suit’s statement of claim says in order for OpenAI to obtain the significant quantities of text data needed to develop...