Several Indian media firms, including NDTV and newspaper Indian Express, have sued OpenAI, accusing it of scraping content without permission or compensation.
The firms through their filing in a Delhi court joined ANI, which had brought similar allegations against the US firm last year. The matter is scheduled for hearing on Tuesday in ANI case.
The latest to join forces against OpenAI are Gautam Adani-owned NDTV, Mukesh Ambani-owned News 18, and Hindustan Times, among others.
OpenAI has maintained that India is a crucial market for the company with its burgeoning number of smartphone users, 65 crore, and its much-vaunted young demographic.
According to Reuters, which cited the 135-page court filing, the Indian media firms alleged that OpenAI's "conduct" constituted "a clear and present danger to the valuable copyrights" of Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) members and other outlets.
However, not all DNPA members, such as Times of India, are party to the lawsuit.
The current court engagement is just one of the many OpenAI has faced since its breaking out on to the AI scene in 2022 with its ChatGPT tool.
In March last year, eight daily newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, filed a lawsuit in New York federal court against it and Microsoft, alleging that the tech giants unlawfully used their journalists' work to train their AI systems.
The lawsuit alleged that the two firms copied millions of their articles without permission to train AI products, such as Microsoft's Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
It was also earlier sued by a group of 17 authors, including John Grisham and George RR Martin, over an alleged "systematic theft on a mass scale."
In December 2023, OpenAI joined hands with Axel Springer, German media behemoth to use its content to train its AI tools. The company has over time also partnered with the Financial Times, France's Le Monde and Spain's Prisa Media for content.
Deposing before a UK committee during a trial involving the New York Times, OpenAI CEO admitted that the use of copyrighted materials was unavoidable for the effective functioning of its systems.
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