OpenAI Destroyed AI Training Data. Staff Who Collected It Are Gone.

OpenAI is facing a lawsuit from the Authors Guild, accusing the company of using copyrighted books to train its AI models like GPT-3. Court documents revealed that OpenAI deleted significant training datasets, "books1" and "books2," which contained extensive literary content and were crucial to the lawsuit's allegations. Additionally, the two researchers responsible for creating these datasets are no longer with the company, adding complexity to the ongoing legal battle over intellectual property and compensation in AI development.