WikiHow Sues OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over the Alleged Misuse of Its Instructional Content to Train ChatGPT

news.law August 27, 2026

On Friday, do-it-yourself site wikiHow filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against OpenAI with allegations that the company scraped instructional material to train its artificial intelligence models, including the popular chatbot, ChatGPT. The filing claims that OpenAI scraped thousands of its how-to articles, misusing the platform’s instructional material to train its AI to respond to human prompts.

WikiHow publishes instructional articles on anything from “routine tasks to specialized skills,” the company said in its complaint. According to the filing, OpenAI scraped more than 11,000 of its articles without permission or compensation to train its large language models (LLMs).

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