According to the partial unblocking summary judgment motion submitted by news publishers, OpenAI and Microsoft executives acknowledged that their AI tools can replace multimedia articles and that the technology poses a threat to the journalism industry. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that conversations with chatbots have “replaced” publisher websites; OpenAI senior executive Nick Turley wrote, “Our products are largely alternative.” The multi-district lawsuit accuses the two companies of illegally using news articles to train AI. The Trump administration has urged the court to rule that using copyrighted works to train AI constitutes reasonable use. Nadella also said that paywall content should be licensed for AI training. If he knows that OpenAI captures and trains paywall information, he will ask OpenAI to retrain the model.

According to the partial unblocking summary judgment motion submitted by news publishers, OpenAI and Microsoft executives acknowledged that their AI tools can replace multimedia articles and that the technology poses a threat to the journalism industry. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified that conversations with chatbots have “replaced” publisher websites; OpenAI senior executive Nick Turley wrote, “Our products are largely alternative.” The multi-district lawsuit accuses the two companies of illegally using news articles to train AI. The Trump administration has urged the court to rule that using copyrighted works to train AI constitutes reasonable use. Nadella also said that paywall content should be licensed for AI training. If he knows that OpenAI captures and trains paywall information, he will ask OpenAI to retrain the model.