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Canadian news publishers suing ChatGPT developer over copyright violations

Coalition includes The Canadian Press, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada

by · National Post

A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system, saying the company breaches copyright by “scraping large swaths of content” from media websites.

“OpenAI is capitalizing and profiting from the use of this content, without getting permission or compensating content owners,” the coalition said in a statement Friday.

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