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.
That’s right – because no (or very few) actual “authors” will get any money from settlements or damage awards, only the publishers who own the copyrights.