Ethics & SecuritySeptember 27, 2026
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OpenAI Knew About Book Piracy

Unsealed court filings show OpenAI executives knew training on copyrighted books was illegal and would harm authors, and they worried about how it would look on Hacker News.

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šŸ”„ What happened New court filings reveal OpenAI executives knew since 2019 they were training on copyrighted books from a "sketchy Russian website." They deleted evidence in 2022 under the codename "Project Clear." šŸ’” Why it matters OpenAI Policy Director Jack Clark wrote internally in 2020: "Our work will make people unemployed" – and they shipped anyway. Microsoft knew since April 2019, when Sam Altman and Dario Amodei showed Bill Gates GPT-3. ⚔ Our take This isn't an oversight, it's calculated piracy. When you steal books and then scrub the evidence, you've forfeited any claim to "responsible AI."
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