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  "textContent": "Encyclopedia Britannica — which also owns Merriam-Webster — is suing OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train its AI models, TechCrunch reports. The lawsuit makes three claims: OpenAI trained on the content without permission, ChatGPT generates full or partial verbatim reproductions of the articles, and OpenAI uses the articles in ChatGPT's retrieval-augmented generation workflow. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Britannica sues OpenAI for scraping nearly 100,000 articles appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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