USA Today owner sues OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in AI training

USA Today Co and its local newspapers filed a lawsuit against OpenAI claiming the artificial intelligence developer copied hundreds of thousands of articles to train its AI models. The Verge AI, Press Gazette, and Reuters all reported that the publisher alleges unauthorized use of its news content. [1][2][3][5][6]

According to the Verge AI, the publisher requested damages of more than 250 million dollars in a court filing. The lawsuit claims that the unauthorized use of news reporting by OpenAI has caused real and continuing harm to the media outlets. [2][4]

USA Today Co, formerly known as Gannett, is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City and is the largest United States newspaper publisher by total daily circulation. USA Today network outlets, including the Courier Journal, are part of the lawsuit against the technology company. [5][8]

The legal action comes amid a series of copyright lawsuits against OpenAI, including a case filed by The New York Times, as publishers challenge how artificial intelligence models are trained on journalistic content. [2][7]