In three consolidated suits, publishers allege that OpenAI broke copyright law by copying millions of articles without permission or payment. OpenAI counters that the fair use doctrine protects them.

The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The publishers argue that OpenAI's practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism.

The New York Daily News and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Other publishers, like the Associated Press, News Corp. and Vox Media, have reached content-sharing deals with OpenAI ...

Leading each of the three combined cases are the Times, The New York Daily News and the Center for Investigative Reporting. The hearing on Tuesday is centered on OpenAI's motion to dismiss ...

In a recent legal proceeding, Microsoft and OpenAI defended their practice of using large amounts of online news content to train their AI models. The companies urged the court to dismiss lawsuits from news organizations like The New York Times and New York Daily News,

The maker of ChatGPT hopes to spur investment from the Middle East and avoid strict regulations on the development of new technologies.

The lawsuit calls for the destruction of ChatGPT's dataset, a move that could deal a major blow to OpenAI as it would have to rebuild its dataset using only authorized works. Federal copyright law carries heavy financial penalties, with fines up to $150,000 for each willful infringement.