wikiHow Sues OpenAI for Scraping 11,000 Articles, Alleging Copyright Infringement
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-08-25
wikiHow has sued OpenAI, alleging it scraped over 11,000 articles without permission to train GPT models, infringing at least 1,200 copyrights. The complaint argues that ChatGPT answers substitute for the original how-to pages, causing market harm. Filed on Aug 21 in the Southern District of New York, the case links training provenance to market effects under fair use. However, OpenAI may have a strong defense since copyright protects expression, not the underlying procedures or facts described in the articles.
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