Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its artificial intelligence models.
Britannica said in the complaint filed on Friday that Microsoft-backed OpenAI used its online articles and encyclopedia and dictionary entries to teach its flagship chatbot ChatGPT to respond to human prompts and “cannibalized” Britannica’s web traffic with AI-generated summaries of its content.
Fuck literally every single thing about Sam Altman.
Especially his stupid haircut.
(This is a joke)
Wikipedia and Britannica are rivals, and we even have a strong rival (in terms of depth and quality, not usage) to their Merriam-Webster subsidiary in the form of Wiktionary.
But there’s no animosity toward either that I know of on Wikipedia/Wiktionary (there’s probably some bitterness toward us after we used their public domain articles as a springboard into basically killing print encyclopedias).
I wish them the best on this. They still provide a valuable service, and their work is still great.
Americans thieving copyrighted material again ay?
It’s be a shame if Sam Altman fell out of a window
Maybe he should meet Putin.
I’m not convinced there’s much of a difference between Putin and Trump but I have a few hundred to chip in if we can get Sam to the nouveau Soviet Union
Don’t be so harsh, he’s only doing what pretty much any American would do.
I believe there’s precedent in both directions, but if Britannica can provide decent evidence of the “cannibalization”, then the use (by OpenAL) is unlikely to pass the “fair use” criteria.
