'Five Major Canadian News Media Companies Launch Legal Action Against OpenAI; Complaint By Canadian News Media Companies Says OpenAI Regularly Breaches Copyright And Online Terms Of Use By Scraping Large Swaths Of Content From Canadian Media To Help Develop Products' - Reuters News

OTTAWA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Five major Canadian news media companies on Friday filed a legal action against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing it of regularly breaching copyright and online terms of use.

In a statement, Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada said OpenAI was scraping large swaths of content from media to help develop its products.