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- USA Today Co. filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Thursday, joined by several local newspapers it owns, over alleged unauthorized use of their content in AI training.
- USA Today alleges OpenAI copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, according to the filing first reported by Reuters.
- The publisher is seeking damages of more than $250 million in the lawsuit.
- The complaint makes USA Today the latest major news organization to take OpenAI to court over the use of copyrighted journalism in AI development.
Why it matters: A major national newspaper chain attaching a $250 million-plus demand to the alleged copying of hundreds of thousands of articles puts a courtroom price tag on the standoff between publishers and AI labs over training data. The suit deepens the legal pressure on OpenAI as more publishers choose litigation over licensing negotiations.
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