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Company filingSeptember 2, 2026Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC v. Meta Platforms Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:26-cv-02333

Subpoenaed in the Meta cases, OpenAI says its shadow-library use was limited to GPT-3 and GPT-3.5; Anthropic says no public Claude model was trained on LibGen or PiLiMi

Authors and publishers suing Meta subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic for evidence about torrenting and licensing, and the three sides set out their positions in joint letters. OpenAI's lawyers wrote that its use of shadow-library material was limited to GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, that the first never powered ChatGPT and the second was retired years ago, and that its products have had no connection to such libraries for years. Anthropic's lawyers wrote: "No publicly available Claude model was trained on text from the Bartz class repositories," meaning LibGen and the Pirate Library Mirror, that such text was used only for early research models never released, and that it filters outputs. Both said they had already produced their licensing agreements in related cases and resisted further discovery, including on torrent software settings. The magistrate judge denied the motions to compel on September 10. These are lawyers' statements in letters, not sworn testimony.

Joint letter on subpoena to OpenAI (Dkt. 125), p. 5 ↗Joint letter on subpoena to Anthropic (Dkt. 126), p. 6 n. 3 ↗

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