"Britannica claimed that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its online articles and encyclopedia and dictionary entries to teach its GPT family of models. ChatGPT will even produce "near-verbatim" copies of its entries and dictionary definitions, it alleged providing several examples, something that is commonly observed across many chatbots."
""ChatGPT starves web publishers like [Britannica] of revenue by generating responses to users' queries that substitute, and directly compete with, the content from publishers like [Britannica]," the encyclopedia maker said in the complaint."
"Citing a key piece of US trademark law called the Lanham Act, Britannica further accuses OpenAI of violating its trademarks when ChatGPT hallucinates made-up answers and wrongly attributes them to Britannica, which it also says gives the false impression that the usage of its content is approved or sponsored by the encyclopedia."
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company unlawfully copied approximately 100,000 online articles, encyclopedia entries, and dictionary definitions to train its GPT family of models at massive scale. The complaint asserts that ChatGPT generates near-verbatim copies of Britannica's content and produces AI-generated summaries that cannibalize the encyclopedia's web traffic, reducing its revenue. Britannica further claims OpenAI violates trademark law by having ChatGPT produce hallucinated answers falsely attributed to Britannica, creating the false impression of approval or sponsorship. This lawsuit joins numerous other legal actions filed by authors, publishers, and news agencies against AI companies over unauthorized use of copyrighted materials.
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