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The company that taught us everything wants OpenAI to pay for the lesson.

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It is widely acknowledged that AI companies use web articles to train their models without compensating creators or obtaining permission. Publishers such as The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Toronto Star have already filed lawsuits against this practice. Now, another prominent organization has joined the legal proceedings.

Techcrunch has reported that Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the AI giant committed “massive copyright infringement” by scraping and using nearly 100,000 of its online articles to train its LLMs without permission.

What’s this lawsuit about?

Britannica claims that ChatGPT generates responses that substitute its content, reducing web traffic and potential revenue.…