Encyclopedia Britannica Sues OpenAI Over AI Training Data. Is Grokipedia Next?

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Source: Gizmodo

Encyclopedia Britannica wants ChatGPT to stop copying its work.

The publisher of the world’s longest-running English-language encyclopedia, along with its subsidiary Merriam-Webster, is suing OpenAI, accusing the company behind ChatGPT of copyright infringement.

Britannica filed the lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan on Friday. The complaint alleges that OpenAI and its AI products are free-riding on the encyclopedia’s and dictionary’s “trusted, high-quality content” while cannibalizing traffic to their websites.

Britannica claims that OpenAI pilfered its content, including nearly 100,000 online articles, to train its AI models and generate answers that “copy or mimic, sometimes verbatim,” its material. The company also takes issue with instances where the chatbot attributes AI hallucinations to Britannica.

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The AI companies should be sued out of existence, and everyone at those companies responsible for the IP theft should spend some time in prison.

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1. AI relies on theft. How is that a legal business model?

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2. It shouldn't be. I've been shocked by how many people are so okay with it they'll use AI when they don't have to.

I feel sorry for people forced to use generative AI by their jobs or schools.

But I'm just baffled by people who aren't forced to use it, and who KNOW the entire genAI industry is built on theft, who are still happy to use it.

It's a nightmare. All that real work ripped off and exploited, and all that AI-assisted pretense and slop.

Never thought so many people cared so little about ethics. Or were at least willing to set aside any concern for all the people whose work was stolen, if those AI tools built on theft offered any amusement or convenience.