A host of Canadian media companies filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, alleging “inappropriate and illegal” use of their journalism to power the company’s GPT model, Reuters reports. It’s the latest salvo fired by the media in its fight against AI companies that have scraped large swaths of the open web to train their large-language models.

A group of Canadian news and media companies filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker has infringed their copyrights and

The document from the Canadian news companies did not reference Microsoft. However, this month, billionaire Elon Musk broadened his lawsuit against OpenAI to include Microsoft, accusing the two companies of unlawfully attempting to dominate the generative AI market and push out competitors.

A coalition of some of Canada’s biggest media companies is seeking billions of dollars in compensation for what they say is copyright infringement on their work through ChatGPT.

Five Canadian news media companies filed a legal action on Friday against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing the artificial-intelligence company of regularly breaching copyright and online terms of use.

The legal action by CBC/Radio Canada, Torstar, PostMedia and others is the latest from news organizations against the Sam Altman-led firm.

The lawsuit, brought by the CBC, Globe and Mail and others, shows how the battle over copyright and AI is expanding beyond the U.S.

Some of Canada’s best-known media companies join organizations like The New York Times in claiming that OpenAI was unfairly enriched as a result of using their content without permission.

Five Canadian news media publishers have sued OpenAI Inc. for breaching copyright by scraping content to train artificial intelligence products like ChatGPT — opening another front against the $157 billion startup.

The suit, a first for Canada, alleges OpenAI's chatbot was illegally scraping news articles, which the firm denies.