Encyclopedia Britannica & Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI for Copyright

Two pillars of reference publishing, Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging widespread copyright infringement. The suit claims OpenAI used nearly 100,000 of their copyrighted articles to train its large language models, including ChatGPT, without permission or compensation. A central allegation is that ChatGPT can generate responses that are "substantially similar" to the proprietary content from these reference works. The publishers argue thi