New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over use of stories to train chatbots

The New York Times said it has never given permission to anyone to use its content for generative AI purposes (Mark Lennihan/AP)

The New York Times has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, seeking to end the practice of using its stories to train chatbots.

In the suit filed on Wednesday in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the Times said OpenAI and Microsoft are advancing their technology through the “unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it” and “threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service”.