Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...AI pioneer OpenAI and Microsoft have suffered a legal setback after a federal judge ruled that a copyright infringement lawsuit can proceed. In December 2023 The New York Times became the first major US media organisation to sue OpenAI (and its main investor Microsoft). Copyright claimsShortly after that NYT lawsuit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed his surprise at the lawsuit, saying OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models didn’t need to train on the publisher’s data. But the New York Times lawsuit wasn’t the last copyright infringement claim to be filed against OpenAI. Then in May 2024 eight US newspaper publishers had alleged that Microsoft and OpenAI used millions of their articles without payment or permission.

Source: The Times March 27, 2025 09:53 UTC