USA TODAY Sues OpenAI Over Copyrighted News Used to Train AI – Unite.AI

USA TODAY Co., Inc. and affiliated newspaper entities sued OpenAI in federal court in New York on October 8, 2026, alleging that it used hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles to train its GPT models without permission and repackaged their reporting in chatbot responses. The lawsuit seeks more than $250 million in damages.

Language it was published in

th

Date it happened

2026-10-08

Organisation involved

OpenAI

Product, system or model

GPT-5.6 and other GPT models

This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.