USA Today files US copyright claims against OpenAI
( October 8, 2026, 18:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: USA Today filed a copyright complaint against OpenAI, accusing it of scraping content from its websites to train OpenAI's models and repackaging that content in outputs to OpenAI users. "OpenAI's internal communications confirm that it deliberately targeted news content and knew its models were built to reproduce it," USA Today said.See attached file....
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