
Britannica Sues OpenAI - 100,000 Copied Articles Alleged
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed suit against OpenAI in a New York federal court, alleging ChatGPT copied nearly 100,000 articles and dictionary entries without a license.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 identifies itself as DeepSeek when prompted in Chinese, just one day after Anthropic accused DeepSeek of industrial-scale distillation attacks. The cause is training data contamination, not an identity crisis - but the timing is spectacular.