Nearly 400 US newspapers sue Microsoft and OpenAI over unauthorized scraping for AI training

近400家美国报纸起诉微软和OpenAI：未经授权抓取新闻内容训练AI

A coalition representing nearly 400 US local newspapers sued Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleges the companies systematically scraped publishers' websites, copied articles to their own servers to train models behind Copilot and ChatGPT, and removed copyright management information. The plaintiffs say these AI products built billions in market value on publishers' content while publishers got nothing. OpenAI responded that training uses publicly available data under fair use; Microsoft hasn't commented yet.

Why it matters: This is one of the largest-scale AI copyright lawsuits to date, hitting all three HKR axes. The deduction is because this isn't the first such case (NYT suit came first), and the article stays at the allegation level without providing specific technical evidence from the filin...