Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for ‘illegally using nearly 100,000’ articles to train ChatGPT
Encyclopedia Britannica – the world’s oldest continuously published English-language general encyclopedia – and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, accusing the ChatGPT-maker of ‘illegally’ using their materials to train it AI chatbot, and then using that same AI to divert the very readers who would otherwise visit their websites.
Citing the complaint, news agency Reuters says that this marks the latest in a growing wave of copyright lawsuits brought by content creators, authors and media organisations against AI companies for allegedly profiting from their work without permission or payment.
