This erodes their copyright, they claim, and «starves publishers of revenue,» because people get their answers directly in ChatGPT rather than getting referred to their websites, TechCrunch writes.
Britannica is also claiming that ChatGPT erodes its trademarks by producing hallucinations and attributing them to their products.
There have been a lot of copyright lawsuits since the early days of LLM chatbots, but only a few have been settled. One judgment is from the Anthropic case, where a judge found that training on copyrighted works was «no different than training schoolchildren to write well».
Other judges have been more skeptical.
Read more: Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget.