Plaintiffs accuse OpenAI of withholding data in copyright lawsuit

Plaintiffs in a landmark class-action lawsuit are accusing OpenAI of withholding information about the data it used to train its generative AI models, saying it would reveal how the company violated copyright protections.

“OpenAI’s compilation and use of these two important books datasets -- potentially including books from notorious pirated book websites -- to train its Large Language Models (‘LLMS’s’) and decision subsequently to delete all copies of these datasets are facts to which the public should have access,” argue...