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The Authors Guild is grateful the Court has unsealed some of the most important filings in our case against OpenAI and Microsoft. (1/7)

The evidence our lawyers have uncovered shows these companies knew they were breaching copyright, knew it would put authors out of work, knew it would degrade American culture. And they simply didn’t care. (2/7)

Some of the evidence is just embarrassing. Like the statement recorded in OpenAI project notes: “We trained GPT-3 on pirated stuff! No sharing that!” (3/7)

And that’s a capital D Disdain: “There will be a point where a bunch of artists express worry about what we’re doing here and we’ll likely ignore their concerns and release anyway.” (5/7)

But far more important – the documents also hammer home why the mass piracy for training purposes is not “fair use” under copyright law. Again and again, OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they were using copyrighted books to create new works that would compete directly with the originals. (6/7)

These filings are riveting and compelling. Read the filings for yourself here: authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-op... (7/7)