OTTAWA — OpenAI is set to argue in an Ontario court today that a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers involving its ChatGPT generative AI system should be heard in a U.S. courtroom instead.

A coalition of Canadian news outlets which includes The Canadian Press, Torstar, The Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada is suing OpenAI for using news content to train ChatGPT.

In what is the first case of its kind in Canada, they argue OpenAI is breaching copyright by scraping large amounts of content from Canadian media, and then profiting from the use of that content without permission or compensation.

OpenAI is challenging the jurisdiction of the Ontario Superior Court to hear the case, arguing the company isn’t located in Ontario and doesn’t do business in the province

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