First reported by , a number of major Canadian news and media companies have banded together to sue OpenAI over its use of their articles to train large language models.
In a statement about the lawsuit, News Media Canada president Paul Deegan argued that "these artificial intelligence companies cannibalize proprietary content and are free-riding on the backs of news publishers who invest real money to employ real journalists who produce real stories for real people.
- The Globe and Mail
- The Canadian Press
- The CBC
- The Toronto Star
- Metroland Media and Postmeda
I'm not usually one to lose any [[link]] sleep over the protection of corporate copyright, but it's starting to become clear that copyright law may prove an effective defense against AI companies swallowing up the internet whole and spitting it back out to us in diminished form. OpenAI is currently also fending off copyright lawsuits from the and a including George R.R. Martin, while in a bit of palace intrigue between him and other co-founders of the supposed non-profit.