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The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement.

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The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement .

The Seattle Times and Newsday also named Microsoft as a defendant in the suit, since Copilot is built on OpenAI’s technology.

As part of the suit, The Seattle Times and Newsday are ⁠seeking the destruction of any copies of their works the companies are holding, as well as training datasets and AI models that incorporate them.

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