Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been accused of training their AI models on copyrighted materials uploaded to a piracy website called LibGen.
Communications show that OpenAI deleted the dataset, a move that plaintiffs argue could be construed as intentional destruction of evidence. Judge Ona Wang has already found that OpenAI improperly withheld materials, per Bloomberg.
This is one of those court cases where the best you can hope for is that someone ignites a leaky gas line under the courthouse
If anything I hope openAI loses only so that techbros think twice about monetizing other people’s creative works.