OTTAWA - 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.

The outlets say in a joint statement that OpenAI is regularly breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media. 

A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system.