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2026
WikiHow sues OpenAI over AI training on copyrighted articles
Lawsuit filed
WikiHow filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that OpenAI scraped and copied WikiHow's human-authored, expert-verified how-to articles without a license or payment in order to train and operate ChatGPT. The suit further alleges that ChatGPT reproduces the substance of WikiHow articles, which deprives WikiHow of page visits and advertising revenue.
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WikiHow sues OpenAI for unsanctioned content use in AI training
“WikiHow has paid writers and editors to produce the internet’s largest library of human-authored, expert-verified how-to instructions. Defendants took that library, without a license and without payment, and used it to build and operate ChatGPT—a product that now supplies the substance of WikiHow’s articles to readers who never arrive at wikiHow’s pages,” the lawsuit says.
WikiHow has also accused OpenAI of cannibalizing its web traffic. “ChatGPT reproduces and repackages WikiHow’s instructions in its own answers, so that a reader obtains the substance of a WikiHow article without ever visiting wikiHow. That deprives wikiHow of the page visits on which its advertising revenue depends.”