USA Today Co. sues OpenAI, the 148th US copyright suit against an ai company

USA Today Co. has sued OpenAI in New York over content from 19 of its publications. The case joins the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation before Judge Stein.

• Claims: direct and vicarious copyright infringement, and removal of copyright information under the DMCA.
• Remedies: Forbes reports the company seeks more than $250 million and the destruction of models trained on its content. Forbes also says the papers account for more than 160,000 entries in WebText.
• The count: the tracker Chat GPT Is Eating the World puts the total at 148 US copyright suits against ai companies, 29 of them against OpenAI.

Separately, Bloomberg Law reports that Judge Stein barred plaintiffs in the books case from relying on a paper by Stony Brook researcher Tuhin Chakrabarty.

Why it matters

The suits keep coming, and the remedies sought now include destroying trained models, not only damages.