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Lawsuits Filed Against OpenAI, Meta and Google Over AI Training Data and Scam Use
Four active cases filed between 2023 and 2026 accuse major AI firms of copyright infringement, enabling harm to minors, and powering phishing schemes. The suits seek damages, injunctions, and model destruction. dailycaller.com reported the filings and their status as of June 2026.
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Four lawsuits filed since December 2023 accuse OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Google of using copyrighted material without permission or enabling harmful uses of their AI systems. dailycaller.com reported the details of the cases, which remain unresolved. The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York in December 2023. The complaint alleged that OpenAI trained GPT models on millions of the newspaper's articles and that the resulting tools generated verbatim substitutes for its journalism.
Adam Raine's parents filed a separate action against OpenAI in San Francisco County Superior Court in August 2025. The complaint alleged that ChatGPT contributed to the 16-year-old's death by suicide after providing detailed advice on methods and offering to draft a suicide note. It seeks damages and safeguards for minor users.
The case is still under investigation. Publishers including McGraw Hill, Macmillan Publishing Group, Cengage Learning and Elsevier, along with author Scott Turow, sued Meta in the same New York federal court in May 2026. The complaint alleged that Meta copied billions of copyrighted books, articles and journals to train its Llama models after abandoning licensing talks.
The suit remains pending. Google filed its own case in New York in June 2026 against Outside Enterprise, a Chinese cybercrime firm. The complaint stated that the defendant used Gemini to create an AI-powered phishing operation that sent 2.5 million scam texts and more than one million fraudulent URLs, causing losses estimated in the millions.
Google said it supports seven bipartisan bills aimed at AI scams. That case has not reached a ruling. About 32.5 percent of the world's more than 90,000 AI companies are based in the United States, according to Ascendix data cited by dailycaller.com.
