The complainants include Torstar, The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, CBC/Radio-Canada and Postmedia Network Inc.
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The complainants include Torstar, The Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, CBC/Radio-Canada and Postmedia Network Inc, which publishes the Financial Post.
While media companies welcome technological innovations, participants must follow the law, it added.
OpenAI wasn’t immediately available for a response.
The company is facing a similar action in the United States. In April, a group of eight newspapers alleged that technology companies, including OpenAI, were using news articles without payment or permission to train their chatbots. This was after the New York Times filed a similar lawsuit in December.
It added that the company provides a “simple opt out process” for publishers to prevent the company’s tools from accessing their sites.
The tech company has made a number of deals with media companies such as the Financial Times, Time, The Atlantic, News Corp. and Hearst to license content for the purpose of training its AI models.