New York Times has asked a court to amend its copyright complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging Microsoft drove OpenAI to copy its journalism by building a bespoke supercomputer designed to train AI on copyrighted material without permission. That amendment responds to a recent Supreme Court ruling for Cox Communications over Sony, which raised the bar for contributory infringement by requiring plaintiffs to prove a party intentionally induced illegal conduct. NYT argues the machine was custom-built to enable infringement and weighted its articles heavily so models could mimic high-quality journalism, a claim Microsoft dismissed as a last-ditch effort to escape unfavorable precedent. OpenAI, meanwhile, reiterated that training on publicly available data is fair use, a question courts have yet to settle.
