The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of violating Canadian copyright laws and "unjustly enriching" itself "at the expense" of the news media companies.
A group of prominent Canadian news organizations sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Friday, extending the fight over artificial intelligence and copyright beyond the United States. The lawsuit, brought by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada
The suit was filed by several leading Canadian media companies, including the owners of the National Post and Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada. The group alleges that OpenAI infringed on its copyrights when training its models, like ChatGPT, without seeking permission or offering compensation.
The nonprofit arm of OpenAI reported receiving $5 million in public contributions in 2023, though the sources remain undisclosed. By the end of the year, OpenAI’s nonprofit listed net assets exceeding $21 million—a stark contrast to the $6.6 billion raised by its for-profit entities in October to drive AI development.
In a Stanford study, a two-hour interview was all it took for an AI to accurately predict people’s responses to a barrage of questions.
In the fast-moving world of AI, competition is heating up—and nowhere is this more evident than in the battle over advanced reasoning models. In just the past few days, three new AI models from Chinese developers—Deepseek R1 (HighFlyer Capital Management),
The legal action by CBC/Radio Canada, Torstar, PostMedia and others is the latest from news organizations against the Sam Altman-led firm.
Orange has struck a multi-year partnership with OpenAI in Europe that will give the French telecoms operator access to pre-release AI models, group chief artificial intelligence officer Steve Jarrett said on Wednesday.
OpenAI is funding academic research into algorithms that can predict humans’ moral judgements.
Rival news organizations are banding together for a noble cause: protecting their copyrighted materials from ChatGPT.