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OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books
- Occurred
- Jun 11, 2018
- Published
- Jun 30, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Two authors alleged in a class action lawsuit OpenAI infringed authors' copyrights by incorporating illegal "shadow libraries" offering copyrighted books without permission in the training data of its generative LLMs, such as ChatGPT.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Paul Tremblay
- Mona Awad
- authors of copyrighted works
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Class action lawsuit over unauthorized data collection and copyright infringement in LLM training data.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8