This lawsuit is part of a broader wave of copyright infringement cases that OpenAI and Microsoft are currently facing.

In a related legal development, Judge Colleen McMahon of New York's federal court recently dismissed a copyright lawsuit filed by the news sites Raw Story and AlterNet.

In December 2023, The New York Times filed a significant lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking accountability for billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages.

The lawsuits allege that OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) were trained using content from various publications and books without obtaining proper permissions.

Additionally, artists have claimed they were not compensated for the use of their works in training these AI models.

In response to the lawsuit, OpenAI has requested the court to dismiss the case, arguing that The New York Times exploited a glitch in ChatGPT that caused it to repeat articles verbatim.