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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI

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  1. papergirl · · focus · HN ↗
    Newly released court filings quote an OpenAI researcher saying: “I was just worried about optics - i.e. 'openai uses copyrighted data from sketchy russian website’ showing up on HN would be unfortunate."

    That's just one of several interesting quotes that have surfaced in documents from the Authors Guild's lawsuit against OpenAI.

    1. classified · · focus · HN ↗
      That's not interesting, it's just dumb. OAI (among others) plundered the whole internet to steal their training data, what difference does a single website, however "sketchy" or not, make?
      1. beng-nl · · focus · HN ↗
        Because in context, the material obtained from that website is library genesis (libgen), a huge collection of (among other things) copyrighted books.
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