USA Today Co. and local newspapers sue OpenAI over training data
The publisher alleges OpenAI copied articles from USA Today and local titles without permission and seeks damages exceeding $250 million.
Publishers bring training-data claim
USA Today Co. and newspapers in its network filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in New York federal court on October 8. The Verge reported that the complaint accuses OpenAI of copying hundreds of thousands of articles to train its models without permission and seeks damages exceeding $250 million. WKMS identified the Louisville Courier Journal among the local titles joining the case. Those numbers and the description of OpenAI’s conduct are the plaintiffs’ allegations, not findings by a court or an independent audit of the training data.
Remedy and response remain open
WKMS reported that the complaint also asks the court to bar future use of the publishers’ work and to order the destruction of models and training sets incorporating that content. Those are requested remedies, not orders already granted. The Verge and WKMS both said OpenAI had not responded to their requests for comment when they published. The filing adds another publisher group to the legal disputes over AI training, but it does not establish that OpenAI infringed these works or predict how the court will rule.