According to PANews on November 30, as reported by IT Home, five major Canadian news media companies have sued OpenAI, accusing the company of frequently violating copyright and online usage terms, such as using their news to train ChatGPT. The Canadian Press, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Torstar (owner of the Toronto Star), Postmedia (owner of the National Post), and the Globe and Mail issued a statement stating that OpenAI has scraped a large amount of their copyrighted content to train its AI models without permission or compensation. In an 84-page claim submitted to the Ontario Superior Court, the five Canadian companies are seeking damages from OpenAI and a permanent injunction to prevent the company from using their materials without consent.
In response, OpenAI stated that its models are trained on publicly available data, based on fair use and relevant international copyright principles, which is fair to creators. "We work closely with news publishers, including displaying, attributing, and linking to their content in ChatGPT search, and always provide them with an option to opt out."