Attorneys representing the New York Daily News, the New York Times, and other newspapers urged a Manhattan judge on January 15, 2025, to deny OpenAI and Microsoft's request to dismiss aspects of their lawsuits. The plaintiffs assert that OpenAI and Microsoft utilized content from publishers to train their advanced language models without permission, acknowledgment, or payment.
The New York Times is pursuing billions of dollars in compensation and demanding the deletion of ChatGPT's dataset. The lawsuits claim that the AI models pose a threat to journalists' credibility by inaccurately presenting their work or crediting it to different sources.