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The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the use of journalism to train generative AI models.

The Seattle Times and Newsday have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the generative AI companies used journalism to train their models. The lawsuit argues that AI products like ChatGPT and CoPilot are rapacious consumers of human-authored content, delivering derivative imitations of the original work to achieve commercial objectives. This legal action follows a other lawsuit by The New York Times, which also claims copyright infringement by OpenAI and Microsoft. Microsoft responded to the lawsuit by providing 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert for analysis. The company claims that fewer than 1 percent of these logs regurgitated at least 16 words from the news content used to ground the AI model. Microsoft argues that these small numbers support its position that using copyrighted content for AI training is fair use, as the systems are are used for significantly different purposes than the original content. The New York Times lead counsel Ian Crosby stated that the documents and testimony lead to the conclusion that Microsoft and OpenAI stole from the publication to make commercial products that substitute for its journalism. The administration announced a statement of interest in the New York Times case this week, supporting OpenAI.

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