Dictionaries sue OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, claiming the AI company engaged in “massive copyright infringement.” According to the lawsuit, Britannica, which owns Merriam-Webster—holds copyrights on nearly 100,000 online articles that, it alleges, were scraped and used to train OpenAI’s language models without authorization. Britannica further claims that OpenAI infringes copyright by producing outputs that […]











