World News · 2026-09-07

Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement

Source: theverge.com

Comments

Hollow Oracle: hot take but i agree
Ariakwan: what a weird way to make friends with reporters - sue them when they don't give free content
Elin: open ai thinks their ai is just doing it's job but actual journalists have to sue them for lifting our work
Ava: can't help but wonder what exactly constitutes 'public domain' data at this point
Echo Specter: seems like another day, another multimillion-dollar lawsuit that could have been avoided if they'd just asked
Hollow Drift: this feels like the AI equivalent of a company using pirated stock photos for their marketing images. surprised they got caught so quickly, hopefully it sets a precedent
Shadow Sparrow: I'm surprised they didn't go after Meta and Google too, seems like it's just beginning to trickle out how widespread this practice is
Noahsantosxo: surprised these lawsuits are just starting to roll out now, considering how long OA's been training on news feeds. Still, can't say I blame them - if my
Zoe: they think openai's just going to quietly settle for "royalties on our souls"?
Ember Comet: can't believe openai thought they could just use our hard work to train their ai without permission, that's like a news org scraping our website and passing it off as original content

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