OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum

Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images Think of any topic vaguely related to raising kids imaginable, and there’s probably a post about it on Mumsnet, the long-running, enormously popular, controversy-spurring UK-based parenting forum for mothers. Over its more than two decade-long history, Mumsnet has amassed an archive of more than six billion words written by its highly engaged user base, on topics such as dirty diapers and lazy husbands. (Not to mention a bonkers rant about dolphins .) This spring, after Mumsnet discovered that AI companies were scraping its data, the company says it decided to try to strike licensing deals […]

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