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