OpenAI Seeks Merger of Lawsuits Against New York Times and Daily News for Copyright Infringement

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OpenAI Inc. asked a federal court to combine the “functionally identical” copyright lawsuits filed against it by The New York Times Co. and The Daily News LP alleging it used their content to create artificial intelligence services.

The plaintiffs agree with the motion to consolidate the cases, OpenAI told the court, although they disagree on how the merged suit should move forward.

The maker of the ChatGPT argued consolidating the news publishers’ suits over the allegedly infringing use of their articles to train AI models would “eliminate the risk of inconsistent rulings on discovery scope or summary-judgment issues such as …