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.


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.