{"id":3918,"date":"2026-07-11T08:35:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:35:54","slug":"news-outlets-urge-a-judge-to-sanction-openai-in-a-high-stakes-ai-copyright-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3916\">Dairy Queen closes 46 locations nationwide since early 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles. At issue is whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing as an information source, siphoning off web traffic without doing the journalistic work involved in gathering the news.<\/p>\n<p>A filing Thursday in a Manhattan federal courthouse alleges OpenAI \u201cchose obstruction\u201d over releasing datasets and ChatGPT logs that could show how the AI system used copyrighted news content. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to penalize the company for \u201cdiscovery misconduct\u201d that could distort evidence, saying the recent deposition of an OpenAI employee contradicts the company\u2019s earlier claims.<\/p>\n<p>New York Daily News attorney Steven Lieberman said OpenAI has been \u201cmaking misrepresentations\u201d for two years about its ability to search for copyrighted content in its AI training datasets and logs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis motion asks the court to punish OpenAI for hiding and destroying evidence showing how ChatGPT was trained on stolen journalism,\u201d said Lieberman, who represents the Daily News and seven of its sister papers.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has described its limitations in sharing ChatGPT logs as a measure to protect user privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Times\u2019 case weakens and they\u2019ve been forced to drop claims against us, they\u2019re persisting with their efforts to invade the privacy of people who have nothing to do with this case, including by making these blatantly false allegations,\u201d said a statement Thursday from OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri. \u201cWe\u2019ll continue defending our users\u2019 privacy and the long-established principles of fair use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in late 2023, about a year after ChatGPT\u2019s debut sparked a commercial AI boom and began changing the way people search for information online. The threat to news publications became even more apparent when Google in 2024 introduced AI-generated summaries at the top of online search results, cutting off the advertising dollars that come when people click a link to the information\u2019s original source.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3914\">Car careens into Rock Creek during rain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Times has since been joined by other news organizations, including MediaNews Group-owned newspapers the Daily News and the Chicago Tribune, digital media publisher Ziff Davis and the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and other tech companies have argued the process of training their AI systems on digitized books, online articles and other writings found on the internet is protected by the \u201cfair use\u201d doctrine of U.S. copyright law. It\u2019s a theory being tested in dozens of lawsuits as visual artists, novelists, music record labels and other creative industries take AI companies to court, with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>In the case involving the biggest copyright settlement so far, OpenAI rival Anthropic agreed to pay book authors $1.5 billion for training its chatbot Claude on their pirated works &#8211; an amount that represents a small fraction of Anthropic\u2019s $965 billion market valuation as it prepares to become publicly traded.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 arguments are different from those brought by book authors. In its original lawsuit and an amended complaint filed last month, it focused on the unfair competition of companies that \u201cseek to free-ride on The Times\u2019s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times has already spent more than $28 million on fighting AI companies in court, according to filings with financial regulators that disclose its litigation costs. The costs include another lawsuit the newspaper filed last year against AI company Perplexity. Among the sanctions sought by the newspapers Thursday are attorney fees that would pay for the efforts to secure \u201cimproperly withheld\u201d evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The mounting costs come as a growing number of media organizations have signed licensing deals with OpenAI and other AI companies such as Google and Facebook parent Meta that typically pay the outlet a fee to be able to train AI systems on their news feeds or archives. The Associated Press was the first to announce such a deal with OpenAI in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=3912\">Maryland environmental officials investigating mass fish kill in Baltimore\u2019s Inner Harbor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien reported from Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2198,994,1717,2351,845],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-microsoft","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-new-york-times"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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