
Unsealed Briefs Reveal OpenAI and Microsoft Knowingly Used Pirated Books
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Unsealed briefs allege that OpenAI and Microsoft knowingly used pirated books to train AI, prioritizing market dominance over the livelihoods of human authors.
Online archives and unauthorized digital libraries that preserve and provide access to books, papers, and other knowledge resources outside traditional publishing and licensing systems.

Unsealed briefs allege that OpenAI and Microsoft knowingly used pirated books to train AI, prioritizing market dominance over the livelihoods of human authors.

Anna’s Archive is urging a global book-scanning movement to stop AI companies from monopolizing and destroying physical books for private training data.
Anna’s Archive provides official bulk access methods for LLMs and requests donations from AI entities to support the preservation of the knowledge they use for training.