wikiHow sues OpenAI over AI training, query use
wikiHow filed a copyright suit against OpenAI, alleging infringement in both OpenAI’s training inputs and its responses to user queries, plus vicarious infringement and removal of copyright management information under the DMCA, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World. The site’s litigation tracker counts it as the 24th copyright suit filed against OpenAI, and puts the nationwide total of AI copyright suits against any company at 137.
Why it matters: wikiHow's how-to content is exactly the kind of practical, structured text AI answer engines lean on, so its suit tests whether that category of publisher can extract licensing terms from OpenAI the way news and book publishers have sought.
The record: OpenAIAI training & copyright litigation
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗
Posted to the wire August 22, 2026.