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# USA Today sued OpenAI for over $250 million : it also wants a judge to order the destruction of any OpenAI models trained on its articles.

## Retrieval answer

USA Today Co. and 13 affiliated entities have sued OpenAI in federal court in New York seeking more than 250 million in damages. The complaint alleges that OpenAI copied hundreds of thousands of articles from 19 publications to train and

USA Today Co. and 13 affiliated entities have sued OpenAI in federal court in New York, seeking more than $250 million in damages. The complaint alleges that OpenAI copied hundreds of thousands of articles from 19 publications to train and operate its models, and reproduced or repackaged reporting in ChatGPT responses. The plaintiffs also ask the court to order destruction of GPT models and training sets that use their content. Forbes reports that the filing cites claims about material appearing in WebText and a 2019 Common Crawl snapshot, as well as examples involving GPT-5.6 summaries of newspaper articles. These are allegations in a newly filed lawsuit, not findings by a court. The case puts both training-data use and the downstream output of a model in dispute.

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