OpenAI sued again for huge recovery, AI giants frequently caught in copyright storms

According to CCTV News, OpenAI, the U.S.-based open AI research center that developed ChatGPT, has recently been sued again, with a number of Canadian media outlets jointly suing OpenAI for copyright infringement. The argument between content copyright holders and AI technology companies focuses on how the latter use copyrighted content to build and operate their AI systems without authorization. The "copyright wars" over AI are now at a fever pitch. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit include the Toronto Star and its subsidiaries Metro Media Group, The Post Group, The Globe and Mail, the Canadian Press, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other media outlets with broad influence in Canada. They allege that OpenAI "routinely violates" copyright and online terms of use by grabbing large amounts of content from Canadian media outlets to help develop products such as ChatGPT, which OpenAI exploits and profits from without permission or compensation from the content owners. The media outlets joined together to file a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Canada, and asked the court to order OpenAI to pay punitive damages and to recover the profits it made from the use of the plaintiff media outlets' content. The plaintiff media outlets have offered OpenAI damages of up to C$20,000 (approximately Rs. 100,000) per news story used, meaning that the total amount of the lawsuit could be in the billions of Canadian dollars.