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Peter Schoppert
Personal blog · aicopyright.substack.comaibusiness
Peter Schoppert writes AI and Copyright, a personal blog at aicopyright.substack.com about ai and business. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for its research on copyrighted ebooks used to train LLMs, including a list of 72,508 pirated ebook titles. Commenters cite it as a source on shadow-library training data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
How will the legal uncertainty around AI models be resolved?
Most-linked posts?
- /p/has-your-book-been-used-to-train2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-26
What Hacker News says?
It is apparently widely suspected that a certain "Books2" dataset mentioned by OpenAI is basically just LibGen: https://blusharkmedia.medium.com/the-ongoing-battle-against-... https://techhq.com/2023/09/can-libgen-shadow-library-survive... https://www.twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282152689336320 https://qz.com/openai-books-piracy-microsoft-meta-google-cha... https://qz.com/shadow-libraries-are-at-the-heart-of-th…
Comment linking /p/has-your-book-been-used-to-train
on “The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack”For any book popular enough to have be put into GPT training data, you can get a summary without uploading it. The idea that these big, corporate models (their "intellectual property" if you will) have been trained on data they downloaded from ebook pirating sites... it's a real head shaker. https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/has-your-book-been-used-t...
Comment linking /p/has-your-book-been-used-to-train
on “I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result”>we found 72,508 ebook titles (including 83 from Stanford University Press) that were pirated and then widely used to train LLMs despite the protections of copyright law https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/the-books-used-to-train-l...
Comment linking /p/the-books-used-to-train-llms
on “Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun”