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Publishers stop suing over what AI says and start suing over what it was fed

Runtime Wire, Oct 8 · read the original

USA Today Co.

and 18 affiliated newspapers sue OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, alleging more than 160,000 of their articles, 83,266 from USA Today alone, trained GPT models without a license, and seeking over $250 million in damages plus the destruction of any model trained on their work.

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