Major tech companies including OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic trained their flagship AI models on millions of copyrighted books sourced from shadow libraries without author permission or compensation, according to unsealed court documents and recent legal proceedings. Executives at OpenAI and Microsoft were internally aware that the practice was illegal yet proceeded anyway, prioritizing competitive advantage over copyright law, documents revealed in September 2026 in the Authors Guild lawsuit against OpenAI.
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