Can I get sued if I use AI to write my blog posts?

You can get sued for using AI to write blog posts, but the real risk isn't about using AI — it's about what the AI accidentally copies from someone else. Most lawsuits around AI-generated content center on copyright infringement, meaning the AI spit out text that was too close to existing copyrighted work. In my experience, this happens most often when you give the AI a source article and ask it to 'rewrite' it. That's a recipe for trouble. A famous case involved the New York Times suing OpenAI in late 2023, claiming ChatGPT reproduced their articles almost verbatim. The legal ground is still shaky. According to the U.S. Copyright Office's 2025 guidance, purely AI-generated content can't be copyrighted, but human-edited AI content can. The bigger practical risk? Plagiarism. If you publish AI text without checking it, you might accidentally publish someone else's words. I've seen tools like Copyscape flag AI drafts that pulled too heavily from a single source. The fix is simple: always run AI drafts through a plagiarism checker, and never publish raw AI output without rewriting at least 30-40% of it yourself. For a deeper dive, see our guide on AI content copyright and legal issues. **Related**: Does Google penalize AI-generated content? | How do I check if my AI-written text is plagiarized?