The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on 27 December 2023 in the Southern District of New York, case 1:23-cv-11195, alleging they trained models on millions of its articles without permission and that ChatGPT and Copilot could reproduce its reporting.

Why it mattered The first large American news publisher to sue over training data put the question of whether training on copyrighted text is fair use before a federal court.