Canadian News Outlets Sue OpenAI for Billions Over Copyright Claims

The lawsuit alleges OpenAI unlawfully used proprietary articles to train its AI models, seeking damages of $20,000 per article.

Five major Canadian media organizations, including CBC and The Globe and Mail, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Ontario's superior court on November 30.
The plaintiffs claim OpenAI scraped their copyrighted articles without consent to train its large language models like ChatGPT.
The suit demands punitive damages, a share of profits generated from the alleged misuse, and an injunction to stop further use of their content.
If successful, the requested damages of $20,000 per article could result in a payout worth billions of dollars.
OpenAI denies the allegations, asserting its models are trained on publicly available data under fair use principles, and faces similar lawsuits globally, including from The New York Times