Publishers Accuse OpenAI of Withholding Evidence in Copyright Lawsuits
In a new motion, the New York Times, Ziff Davis and 15 other media organizations say OpenAI "chose obstruction" on details about how it trains its AI models.
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On Thursday, multiple news organizations accused OpenAI of withholding evidence about how the company trains its artificial intelligence models in a new motion that's connected to a series of ongoing copyright lawsuits.
The motion was filed by 17 publishers, including The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and Ziff Davis (CNET's parent company). Ziff Davis sued OpenAI in 2025, alleging that OpenAI scraped its copyrighted works to train ChatGPT and other large language models.
The initial lawsuit dates back to 2023 when The New York Times first sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies built their AI technologies using millions of news articles written by journalists. Microsoft and OpenAI have denied the claims.
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