The popular English language dictionary Merriam-Webster has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using copyrighted material to train its ChatGPT model.
The lawsuit, filed alongside its parent company, Encyclopedia Britannica, claims that OpenAI copied more than 100,000 articles, encyclopedia entries, and dictionary entries from online sources. The complaint alleges that this content was used to teach ChatGPT how to generate responses to user prompts without authorisation.
