ANI Sues OpenAI For 'Exploiting' Its News Content

Asian News International, popularly known as ANI, has sued OpenAI for allegedly “exploiting” its “original news content” without due authorisation, amounting to intellectual property rights violation. In a lawsuit, Indian news agency said that ChatGPT owner trained its AI models for commercial gains and showed incorrect accreditation to statements and news through its chatbot.

Filed in Delhi High Court, ANI's 287-page lawsuit accuses OpenAI for violating rights in two ways. First, Microsoft-backed company used ANI's content to train its large language models (LLMs). Second, ChatGPT shows ANI's content verbatim in response to user queries. OpenAI also allegedly accredited statements, including pieces of news and speeches, to ANI wrongly. agency has warned that such “hallucinations” pose “a real threat to ANI's reputation” and even spre fake news.

OpenAI, however, has rejected allegations me by agency. In a statement, leing Gen AI company's spokesperson said, “We take great care in our products and design process to support news organisations. We are actively engaged in constructive partnerships and conversations with many news organisations around world, including India, to explore opportunities, listen to feedback, and work collaboratively.” spokesperson ded that OpenAI builds its “AI models using publicly available data, in a manner protected by fair use and related principles, and supported by long-standing and widely accepted legal precedents.”

AI company argued that since OpenAI does not have servers in India, lawsuit lacks jurisdiction.

News vs AI

While ANI's allegations against OpenAI marks a first such lawsuit in India, re are several ongoing cases worldwide where media and news organisations have dragged major AI companies to court. In January earlier this year, New York Times sued OpenAI for producing copyrighted works as verbatim, inste of using m as source of information. Sam Altman-led company also faces similar cases in Cana and Germany.