Five of Canada’s leading news organizations have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of copyright infringement and seeking potential damages in the billions. The Canadian Press, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada allege that OpenAI unlawfully “scraped” substantial content from their websites.

A host of Canadian media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, alleging “inappropriate and illegal” use of their journalism to power the company’s GPT model, Reuters reports. It’s the latest salvo fired by the media in its fight against AI companies that have scraped large swaths of the open web to train their large-language models.

The lawsuits claim that OpenAI "scraped" large amounts of content from media sites without permission. They have also claimed that the AI company is not compensating the original creators for the profit made.

Some of Canada’s best-known media companies join organizations like The New York Times in claiming that OpenAI was unfairly enriched as a result of using their content without permission.

A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest media companies is seeking billions of dollars in compensation for what they say is copyright infringement on their work through ChatGPT.

Several news companies in Canada are suing OpenAI for scraping their content. They are demanding a few billion dollars Canadian.

A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its C

Several major news outlets in Canada are now suing OpenAI, the California-based maker of ChatGPT for using their content to improve the program's software.

A coalition of top Canadian news outlets is suing Open AI, the parent company of ChatGPT over alleged copyright infringement

The suit, a first for Canada, alleges OpenAI's chatbot was illegally scraping news articles, which the firm denies.