On May 01, 2024, eight U.S. newspapers including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI.

The newspapers, under Alden Global Capital, assert that their copyrighted articles were used to train AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT without authorization or compensation.

They are demanding financial reparations and a cessation of the alleged copyright infringement.

OpenAI has expressed its support for news organizations and is pursuing partnerships to mitigate these concerns.

The litigation is part of a broader debate in federal courts, including Manhattan and San Francisco, regarding the fair use doctrine as it applies to the utilization of publicly available internet content in AI training.

The resolution of these cases could set a precedent for how copyrighted material is leveraged in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence.