Wikihow v. OpenAI: lawsuit over scraping for training
Dated 22 Aug 2026Source checked 22 Aug 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“How-to instructions website Wikihow is suing OpenAI for allegedly crawling and scraping its content, “whether directly or through intermediary datasets”, to train its products.”
Where it was read
Press Gazette, checked 22 Aug 2026
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