Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training By Investing.com
2026-09-05
Investing.com
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The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies scraped and used their copyrighted articles, including paywalled content, to train AI systems like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Bing AI. The newspapers claim this unauthorized use violates intellectual property rights and harms their business.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The lawsuit directly concerns the use of AI systems trained on copyrighted content without consent, which is a breach of intellectual property rights. The AI systems' outputs reproduce or paraphrase protected works, causing harm to the content owners. This harm has already occurred as the newspapers claim reduced user engagement and subscription revenue. Therefore, the event meets the criteria for an AI Incident involving violations of intellectual property rights.[AI generated]