Does OpenAI use book data, such as ebooks or scanned PDFs?

qmsoqm2 · December 30, 2022, 5:48pm

Does OpenAI use book data, such as ebooks or scanned PDFs, to train its artificial intelligence systems?

If so, what sources does it use for this data?
Is it legal for companies to use book data for free to create a business?

imran.shamia · January 31, 2023, 8:32pm

Hi,
Check this article to get idea where did training data come from.

ruby_coder · February 1, 2023, 1:42am

This table (blow) from the reference above summaries nicely for those who will not have time to read the blog post:

Topic		Replies	Views
Training data - books1 & books2 API	2	1770	July 7, 2021
Has GPT been trained with pay-walled scientific papers or copyrighted books, journals, etc? API	2	745	April 30, 2023
What are books1 and books2? API	0	4786	August 24, 2021
Will documents will be used to train the bot? Anything will be shared from out documents? API	3	999	December 15, 2023
I have a book, I want OpenAI to be trained on the book. How can I do it? Community gpt-4 , chatgpt	5	1186	June 13, 2023