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  • Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books
    by Kyle Wiggers on April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM

    OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models. AI models are essentially complex prediction engines. Trained on