They sue OpenAI and Microsoft for violating copyrights, in the US.

Ocho US newspapers sue OpenAI, creator of ChatGPTalready Microsoftaccusing these technology companies of violate copyrightand accuse them of “steal your job and increase your own business” at their expense.

And they accuse her of “steal millions” of protected journalistic articles for copyright without authorization and without paying, to train their artificial intelligence chatbots.

He New York Daily Newshe Chicago Tribunehe Denver Post and other newspapers filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in New York.

“We have spent billions of dollars gathering information and reporting news in our publications, and we can’t let OpenAI and Microsoft expand the playbook of large technology companies to steal our work and increase their own business at our expense.”

Frank Pine, CEO of MediaNews Group y Tribune Publishing.

The above is read in a statement written by Frank Pine, executive director of MediaNews Group y Tribune Publishing.

The other newspapers participating in the lawsuit are Mercury Newyes, the Orange County Register y el St. Paul Pioneer-Pressbelonging to MediaNews Group,yeahthe Orlando Sentinel and the South Florida Sun Sentinelof Tribune Publishing. All are owned by Alden Global Capital.

What did Microsoft and OpenAI say following the newspapers’ lawsuit in the US?

Microsoft declined to comment Tuesday.

But OpenAI said in a statement that it takes care to support news organizations.

“Yes ok We were not aware of Alden Global Capital’s concernswe actively engage in constructive partnerships and conversations with many news organizations around the world to explore opportunitiesanalyze any concerns and provide solutions.”

This is the latest lawsuit once morest OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court, where the companies already face a series of lawsuits for violating copyright presented by the New York Timesother media and successful authors such as John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George RR Martin.

The companies also face another set of lawsuits in federal court in San Francisco.

Tech companies have alleged that taking large amounts of publicly accessible Internet content to train their security systems AI is protected by the “fair use” doctrine of US copyright law. In some cases, they have avoided potential legal challenges by paying organizations for that content.

Last year, The Associated Press agreed to a partnership with OpenAIin which the technology company would pay an undisclosed sum for a license to access the archive of briefing notes from AP.

OpenAI has also established licensing agreements with other media companiesamong them, giants of the newspaper industry such as Axel Springer from Germany and Medium Rush from Spain, the French newspaper The world and, more recently, the Financial Timesbased in London.

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