00:00Do not tick off a 200-year-old company.
00:03Mm-mm.
00:04Not a good idea.
00:05The company that owns Merriam-Webster, the dictionary, is Encyclopedia Britannica.
00:12They are so fuming mad right now, and they're suing open AI.
00:19So here's what happens.
00:21You Google the meaning of a word, or you put it in any old search engine, right?
00:27Right, right.
00:27And AI generates a definition without you having to go to a website to find the definition.
00:36Well, Encyclopedia Britannica is saying all of those words that are being used from AI is really copyright infringement
00:47because they're scanning the internet.
00:50They're going to the Encyclopedia Britannica-owned businesses because they're so reputable,
00:56like Merriam-Webster, and they're actually taking words out verbatim.
01:00They're taking, like, definitions and using them.
01:03So they said that's great for the person who's looking for the definition for something or explanation about something,
01:11but now their websites aren't seeing any traffic, which means that their advertisers aren't getting the clicks,
01:17which means that they're losing tons of money.
01:19Wow, I never really thought about that.
01:22Yeah.
01:22Because I do see those, like, AI Google recaps at the very top if you type something in,
01:27and I'm not hating as many websites anymore.
01:29Right?
01:29It's so nice to just have it all right there.
01:32Yeah.
01:32Encyclopedia Britannica says, hey, until we get this settled, just go right to our sites.
01:37And you know they're saying it in the most eloquent way.
01:40We're using much better words than I am.
01:42It's a dictionary.
01:42I know.
01:42Yeah.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Hold on.
01:44Define eloquent.
01:46Sorry, Jan.
01:46You're using a big word.
01:47Merriam-Webster.com.
01:49They have it.
01:50Okay.
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