A federal judge in the Southern District of New York rejected OpenAI's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by The New York Times, allowing the case to advance past the pleadings stage. The suit alleges OpenAI unlawfully scraped NYT articles to train ChatGPT without permission or payment. The case now enters discovery and pretrial proceedings; trial date has not been set. The decision exposes OpenAI to liability risk and creates regulatory uncertainty for training-data provenance practices across the AI industry, which has largely treated public-web scraping as protected fair use.
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