{"id":146249,"date":"2026-03-17T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/17\/encyclopedia-britannica-merriam-webster-file-copyright-suit-against-openai\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:37:47","slug":"encyclopedia-britannica-merriam-webster-file-copyright-suit-against-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/17\/encyclopedia-britannica-merriam-webster-file-copyright-suit-against-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Encyclopedia Britannica, Merriam-Webster File Copyright Suit Against OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The publishers allege ChatGPT scraped nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its models and reproduces their content verbatim in user responses\u2014while attributing hallucinated text to their trusted brands.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" 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