Issue No. 046 · Story 04 · August 28, 2026

wikiHow Sues OpenAI Over How-To Library

wikiHow sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, alleging that its instructional articles were copied for model training, retrieval systems, and ChatGPT outputs without authorization.

§wikiHow identifies 1,211 copyright registrations covering 11,211 articles at issue.
§The complaint alleges that OpenAI crawlers continued accessing the site after wikiHow added technical directives intended to block them.
§wikiHow claims some ChatGPT outputs reproduced protected text and article structure.
§The suit also alleges removal of titles, bylines, dates, and other copyright management information.

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The complaint combines training, live retrieval, output reproduction, crawler restrictions, and copyright management information in one case. That range of allegations broadens the factual record beyond the initial act of model training.

Source: IPWatchdog

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