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WikiHow Sues AI Giant OpenAI Over ChatGPT Training Data
25 Aug
Summary
- WikiHow alleges OpenAI misused over 11,000 articles for ChatGPT training.
- The lawsuit claims ChatGPT output competes with and harms WikiHow's market.
- WikiHow seeks damages and an order to block OpenAI's copyright infringement.
WikiHow has initiated a lawsuit against artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, asserting that the company scraped thousands of its instructional articles to train its popular chatbot, ChatGPT. The complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court, contends that OpenAI incorporated over 11,000 wikiHow articles without authorization into its large language models.
This legal action highlights a growing trend of copyright holders suing AI companies over the alleged improper use of their content for training chatbots. WikiHow argues that ChatGPT's ability to reproduce its text directly competes with its own market, diminishing its revenue and long-term viability.
The DIY platform's lawsuit claims infringement of more than 1,200 copyrights. WikiHow is seeking substantial monetary damages and a judicial order to prevent OpenAI from continuing to infringe upon its copyrighted materials.
