Microsoft, OpenAI ask federal judge to toss news orgs’ copyright claims
During a court hearing Tuesday morning, lawyers for tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI defended the tech companies’ practice of “scraping” enormous quantities of online news stories to train the large language models used by their chatbots, and urged a federal judge to dismiss various copyright infringement claims by The New York Times, The New York Daily News and other news organizations.
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