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, opens new tab 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.