# wikiHow Sues OpenAI, Citing 148,529 Crawler Visits and Verbatim Reproduction of Its Guides

The complaint covers 1,211 registered copyrights across 11,211 articles and argues the outputs substitute for the originals rather than transform them.

- Published: 2026-08-26T06:22:56.640Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-26/wikihow-sues-openai-citing-148-529-crawler-visits-and-verbat
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [IPWatchdog](https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/08/25/wikihow-files-lawsuit-against-openai-over-chatgpts-use-of-its-how-to-library/), [Reuters via TradingView](https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026:newsml_L6N44L0WE:0-wikihow-sues-openai-for-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training/)

wikiHow has sued OpenAI in federal court for copyright infringement, alleging the company scraped and ingested its instructional library to train ChatGPT without permission or payment. The complaint identifies 1,211 registered copyrights co…

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