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The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of using news articles without permission to train its ChatGPT models, seeking billions in damages and an injunction.
- A coalition of Canada's major news outlets, including CBC, The Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice.
- The publishers allege that OpenAI scraped copyrighted content from their websites to train its ChatGPT models without consent or compensation.
- The plaintiffs are seeking up to C$20,000 per article in damages, potentially amounting to billions, and a ban on further use of their content by OpenAI.
- OpenAI defends its practices, stating that its models are trained on publicly available data and adhere to fair use principles, offering publishers the option to opt out.
- This is the first lawsuit of its kind in Canada but follows similar legal actions in the U.S., where publishers like The New York Times have also accused OpenAI of copyright infringement.
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- Toronto Star Canadian newspaper
- Ontario Canadian Province
- The New York Times American newspaper
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