Ziff Davis sues OpenAI over AI training data scraping
April 25, 2025, 7:20 am
Publisher Ziff Davis has taken legal action against OpenAI, alleging deliberate copyright and trademark infringements by scraping content from over 45 of its media websites to train AI models. The suit intensifies the debate on intellectual property in AI development.
Digital publisher Ziff Davis has sued OpenAI, accusing the AI firm of intentionally infringing copyright and trademark rights by using content from its 45+ websites for model training. The post Publisher Ziff Davis Sues OpenAI over AI Training Data Scraping from Its 45+ Media Websites appeared...
The tech publisher has alleged that OpenAI "intentionally and relentlessly" copied from their articles, removing copyright notices and ignoring robots.txt instructions. The post Ziff Davis Sues OpenAI, Alleging ‘Relentless’ Copyright Violations to Train ChatGPT appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
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