The lawsuit argues that OpenAI’s use of their content could produce a positive feedback loop in which declining advertising ...

Merriam-Webster has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the company of using its material to train its artificial ...

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam Webster sue OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement after AI models trained on nearly 100,000 protected articles.

Spring break should offer students a week to step away from stress and recharge before finals, yet today it often feels ...

Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. and Merriam-Webster Inc. accused OpenAI Inc. of “massive copyright infringement,” including ...

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

The group, which also runs the online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is alleging that OpenAI misused its ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

“Slop,” a term used to describe low-quality digital content, has been named word of the year by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is ...

Merriam-Webster declared "slop" its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced ...