Seattle Times and Newsday sue Microsoft and OpenAI for allegedly scraping hundreds of thousands of paywalled articles without permission to train AI models; seek damages and dataset destruction.

Seattle Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging they trained their AI on its journalism

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued Microsoft and OpenAI on Friday, accusing the tech companies of using their journalism to train AI products without permission. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday to accuse the Redmond tech giant and OpenAI of using their journalism to train artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit alleges that the companies scraped hundreds of...