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The dictionary sues OpenAI

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What Happened

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

Our Take

Finally. This was always coming.

Look, the "fair use for training" defense was thin from day one. 100k articles from Merriam-Webster and Britannica is real IP, and OpenAI took it without permission or payment.

This isn't about stopping LLMs. It's about who profits. If courts side with publishers, every major LLM vendor suddenly has a serious sourcing problem.

What To Do

Track this ruling—it'll reshape what you can legally train models on.

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