The Copyright Conundrum: ANI Vs OpenAI And The Fight For Fair Use

"Independent Journalism is vital to our democracy. It is also increasingly rare and valuable."

These were the opening lines of the New York Times in its case against OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bing Chat. The case was brought by the New York Times against the defendants 'for copying and using millions of the Times's copyrighted news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to-guides and more.' This might sound very similar to the charges imposed by ANI against OpenAI. Another accusation made by the affected news agencies was also the attribution of false information to them. Living in the modern time, a lot of people are pretty oblivious to the enormous amounts of false information they might be consuming on a day-to-day basis. While GenZ has coined the term 'Whatsapp University Students' for the millennials and Boomers consuming false information, they are themselves unaware of the heaps of the same devoured by them through the usage of