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Encyclopedia Brittanica Sues OpenAI for Misusing Its Materials to Train AI Models
Blake Brittain reports the following in “Encyclopedia Britannica Sues OpenAI Over AI Training” for Reuters: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 … 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. … The case is one of many high-stakes lawsuits filed by copyright owners including authors and news outlets against tech companies for using their material to train AI systems without permission. Britannica filed a related lawsuit against artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI last year that is still ongoing. For more information, read the article.
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