8 January 2024FeaturesCopyright ChannelSarah Speight

Why The New York Times has more to lose than OpenAI

In what could be the biggest lawsuit to date levelled by a mass media organisation at AI platforms, The New York Times (NYT) is taking on OpenAI for copyright infringement.

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