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The Seattle Times and Newsday accused the two AI giants of using their content without permission.
The Seattle Times and Newsday have jointly filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of training their AI models using copyrighted works. The two news organizations who filed the legal action on Friday called generative AI "a snake eating its own tail" that would destroy the news organizations and content that it trained on.

In the lawsuit, Seattle Times and Newsday alleged that OpenAI and Microsoft were "methodically scraping" news articles in a way that bypasses paywalls. The news organizations claimed that this method of training AI models has harmed their business models, giving users an AI-generated alternative to news articles and reducing the traffic and digital advertising revenue for Seattle Times and Newsday. The lawsuit also alleged that these AI models would create hallucinations attributing false information to the news outlets and remove copyright management information on articles.

Seattle Times and Newsday join a growing list of news organizations that have started a legal battle against AI companies. In 2023, the New York Times set the precedent by filing a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for similar reasons. The trend has continued, with CNN suing Perplexity for copyright infringement earlier this year. However, other news organizations like AP and Vox Media have taken a different route and partnered with OpenAI, allowing the AI giant to train models on their material.
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Read More: Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - Engadget
 
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Read More: Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - Engadget
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The Engadget report describes a copyright lawsuit filed by The Seattle Times and Newsday against OpenAI and Microsoft over the alleged use of their articles to train generative AI models.

Main claims in the filing

  • The outlets allege systematic scraping of their content, including methods that bypass paywalls.
  • They argue this creates an AI-generated substitute that reduces site traffic and advertising revenue.
  • Additional concerns include potential hallucinations that could falsely attribute information to the newspapers and the removal of copyright management information.

The filing uses the phrase “a snake eating its own tail” to describe the risk that AI systems trained on news content could undermine the very organizations producing that content.

This action follows earlier cases, including the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 and CNN’s suit against Perplexity. In contrast, organizations such as the Associated Press and Vox Media have chosen licensing partnerships instead of litigation.

These cases center on questions of permission, fair use, and the economic impact of large-scale training data collection. Outcomes may affect how news publishers and AI developers handle content going forward.

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