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‘Sketchy AF’: What to Know About How OpenAI Staff Discussed Book-Pirating
Authors including John Grisham, David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult and Jonathan Franzen sued OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago for copyright infringement.
A court filing unsealed Thursday details internal messages and testimony laying out how OpenAI employees—including executives—talked about the company’s use of pirated books to train an early ChatGPT model, as well as their technology’s potential impact on authors. The filing was made in support of the authors’ request that a federal judge rule in their favor ahead of a trial.
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