[papercrane]

The actual complaint is about using their copyrighted works in the training of the LLM without a license. OpenAI is claiming it's fair use, the authors disagree. It's going to take a ruling from a judge to get clarity on the issue, and no matter what it'll be appealed until it hits the SC.

[zeroCalories]

Do we know if OpenAi bought the book, or did they just "accidentally" pirate the book?

[papercrane]

That's what discovery will be for, the complaint alleges that the likely source was libgen. Most of these authors haven't released DRM-free ebooks, and it seems unlikely that OpenAI has a large scale book scanning effort (and even if they did, that authors would likely claim that to be infringement itself.)

[imglorp]

What if it never accessed the book, but read everything relevant like episode summaries, fan wikis, and forum discussions? It would still be as conversant. Is it still infringement?

[smegsicle]

oh right was it really proven that they were training on bittorrent book collections?