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Company filingNovember 17, 2025In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (book authors' class action) · S.D.N.Y. 1:25-md-03143

OpenAI's answer to the book authors admits its books1 and books2 datasets included content from LibGen

In its answer to the authors' consolidated class action complaint, OpenAI admits that the datasets it called books1 and books2 "included content from LibGen" and that those datasets, or subsets of them, were used in training GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, which it describes as now deprecated. It denies the rest of the paragraph. The answer does not say how or when the LibGen content was obtained, or who obtained it, and it names no other book source. OpenAI's later answers to the news publishers in the same proceeding name Books1 and Books2 among the GPT-3 datasets without saying where they came from. Its defenses include fair use and license. This is OpenAI's own pleading; an admission in an answer responds to a specific allegation, and the complaint should be read alongside it.

OpenAI's answer to the consolidated class action complaint (Dkt. 754), para. 119 ↗

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