00:01do not tick off a 200-year-old company.
00:05Mm-mm, not a good idea.
00:07The company that owns Merriam-Webster, the dictionary,
00:10is Encyclopedia Britannica.
00:14They are so fuming mad right now,
00:19and they're suing OpenAI.
00:21So here's what happens.
00:23You Google the meaning of a word,
00:26or you put it in any old search engine, right?
00:29Right, right.
00:29And AI generates a definition
00:33without you having to go to a website to find the definition.
00:37Well, Encyclopedia Britannica is saying
00:40all of those words that are being used from AI
00:46is really copyright infringement
00:49because they're scanning the internet,
00:53they're going to the Encyclopedia Britannica-owned businesses
00:57because they're so reputable,
00:58like Merriam-Webster,
01:00and they're actually taking words out verbatim.
01:02They're taking, like, definitions and using them.
01:06So they said that's great for the person
01:08who's looking for the definition for something
01:11or explanation about something,
01:13but now their websites aren't seeing any traffic,
01:16which means that their advertisers aren't getting the clicks,
01:20which means that they're losing tons of money.
01:22Wow.
01:22I never really thought about that.
01:24Yeah.
01:24Because I do see those, like, AI Google recaps
01:27at the very top if you type something in,
01:29and I'm not hitting as many websites anymore.
01:31Right.
01:31It's so nice to just have it all right there.
01:34Yeah.
01:34Encyclopedia Britannica says,
01:36hey, until we get this settled,
01:37just go right to our sites.
01:38And you know they're saying it in the most eloquent way.
01:42We're using much better words than I am.
01:44I know.
01:44Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:46Hold on.
01:46Define eloquent.
01:48Sorry, Shannon.
01:48You're using a big word.
01:49Merriam-Webster.com.
01:51They have it.
01:52Okay.
01:53Okay.
01:53Okay.
01:53Okay.
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