Encyclopedia Britannica (owner of Merriam-Webster dictionary) have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed "massive copyright infringement" using their content to train ChatGPT.
One to watch.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merriam-webster-openai-encyclopedia-brittanica-lawsuit/

https://mothcloud.com/micropost/dictionary-sues-openai-chatgpt-for-copyright/

The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

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