Center for Investigative Reporting files amended US complaint against OpenAI
( July 9, 2026, 22:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Center for Investigative Reporting filed its second amended US complaint accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of using the nonprofit news organization’s content without permission or offering compensation. “When they populated their training sets with works of journalism, defendants had a choice: to respect works of journalism, or not. Defendants chose the latter. They copied copyrighted works of journalism when assembling their training sets. Their LLMs memorized and at times regurgitated those works,” the center said. See attached file. ...
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