Daily News, other outlets, allege Microsoft urged Open AI to steal journalists’ work

The Daily News and other news organizations have raised allegations against Microsoft, claiming that the technology company urged OpenAI to steal the work of journalists. According to the assertions made by these news organizations, Microsoft "expressly" encouraged users of the ChatGPT platform to republish reporting that was originally produced by journalists.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

These allegations have been published by a variety of news outlets, including the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the Boulder Daily Camera, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Santa Ana Orange County Register, the Hartford Courant, the Reading Eagle, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Baltimore Sun, the Canon City Daily Record, and the Greeley Tribune. Each of these publications reported on the claims that Microsoft encouraged the unauthorized republication of journalists' work.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}