# Merriam-Webster is suing OpenAI over ChatGPT training - qz.com

- slug: merriam-webster-is-suing-openai-over-chatgpt-training-qzcom
- date: 2026-03-18
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary have filed a copyright and trademark lawsuit against OpenAI in federal court, alleging the company systematically scraped nearly 100,000 of its articles to train ChatGPT — and continues to reproduce that content verbatim in its outputs.

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