The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday, Jan. 10, edition that Microsoft-backed OpenAI said Monday that a New York lawsuit against it was "without merit" and that it supported and created opportunities for news organizations, as it waded further into a debate over the unauthorized use of published work to train artificial intelligence technologies. A New York Times dispatch to The Globe reports that The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Dec. 27, accusing the companies of infringing on its copyrights by using millions of its articles to train AI technologies such as the ChatGPT chatbot. Chatbots now compete with The Times as a source of reliable information, the lawsuit said. In a 1,000-word blog post Monday, OpenAI said it collaborated with news organizations and had struck partnerships with some of them, including the Associated Press. Using copyrighted works to train its technologies is fair use under the law, the company added. The Times's lawsuit does not tell the full story of how OpenAI and its technologies operate, it said. The Times was the first major U.S. media organization to sue OpenAI and Microsoft over copyright issues.