last highlighted date: 2024-12-01
Highlights
- A broad coalition of Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press and CBC, is suing tech giant OpenAI, saying the company is illegally using news articles to train its ChatGPT software.
- The suit seeks up to $20,000 in statutory damages per article used by OpenAI, which could put the total value of the suit in the range of billions of dollars.
- Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI was valued at $157 billion (U.S.) after its latest round of fundraising from investors.