https://blusharkmedia.medium.com/the-ongoing-battle-against-...
https://techhq.com/2023/09/can-libgen-shadow-library-survive...
https://www.twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282152689336320
https://qz.com/openai-books-piracy-microsoft-meta-google-cha...
https://qz.com/shadow-libraries-are-at-the-heart-of-the-moun...
https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/authors-file-lawsui...
When asked about whether this was true, they refused to answer based on confidentiality concerns, then said they had deleted all copies of the dataset, stopped using it, and no longer employed the individuals that compiled it:
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-destroyed-ai-training...
We do know for a fact that the (non-OpenAI-controlled) "Books3" dataset is just "all of bibliotik":
https://www.twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282149329784833
https://github.com/soskek/bookcorpus/issues/27
And we also apparently know for a fact that this was included in the datasets used to train LLAMA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pile_(dataset)
https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/the-books-used-to-train-l...
https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/has-your-book-been-used-t...