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    The dictionary takes OpenAI to court

    Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster just sued OpenAI for "massive copyright infringement," alleging it scraped nearly 100,000 articles without permission to train its models. The suit claims ChatGPT starves publishers of revenue through verbatim outputs and RAG search, while falsely attributing hallucinated answers to their brand.

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    Merriam-Webster's word of the year is AI 'slop'

    Merriam-Webster just crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content churned out en masse by AI. From weird videos to coworker-wasting reports, the label shows how the public mood around AI has shifted from existential dread to collective mockery.