OpenAI execs internally acknowledged mass book piracy was illegal and worried about Hacker News optics
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作家协会诉 OpenAI 案新公开的法庭文件显示，包括 CTO Mira Murati 和联合创始人 Ilya Sutskever 在内的高管私下把 LibGen 这类盗版书数据集称为“我们知道不合法”的数据，但照用不误。研究负责人 Bob McGrew 还专门提过“在 Hacker News 上会是什么观感”的公关风险。文件同时表明，OpenAI 内...
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Unsealed court filings in the Authors Guild v. OpenAI case show top execs privately called their use of pirated book datasets like LibGen 'data we know is not legal' but kept using it anyway. CTO Mira Murati, co-founder Ilya Sutskever, and others discussed the legal risks; research lead Bob McGrew flagged concerns about 'optics of what might appear on Hacker News.' The filings also reveal internal awareness that mass book ingestion would harm authors' livelihoods, alongside a belief that skipping it would make competitive models impossible.
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