A judge found that two media outlets alleging copyright violations hadn't demonstrated that they'd been harmed by OpenAI removing "copyright management information" from its training data.

The publications argued that OpenAI removed the author names, titles and other metadata identifying their copyright from the articles it used to train its LLMs. McMahon explained that the plaintiffs failed to show that they suffered "a cognizable injury" from those actions and that the harm they had cited was "not the type of harm that has been elevated" to warrant a lawsuit.

Federal Judge Colleen McMahon has granted OpenAI’s motion to dismiss a copyright lawsuit brought by Raw Story and AlterNet. The news outlets objected to OpenAI’s