Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Major reference publishers Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster are suing OpenAI for allegedly using their content as training data without permission and reproducing it verbatim in ChatGPT responses. This follows a similar lawsuit against Perplexity six months prior, suggesting a pattern of AI companies potentially cannibalizing traditional knowledge publishers' work without compensation or attribution.