Two old-school reference works are going up against a very modern tech product. Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary, Merriam-Webster, have sued OpenAI, alleging the tech company used Britannica's content to train AI models without permission. The lawsuit said OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, has copied Britannica's copyrighted content to train its large language models. "ChatGPT then provides narrative responses to user queries that often contain verbatim or near-verbatim reproductions, summaries or abridgements of original content, including [Britannica's] copyrighted works," the lawsuit alleges.…