Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
作家诉微软/OpenAI案解封简报
Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work 作家诉微软/OpenAI案解封简报：高管明知大规模书籍盗版违法且将导致作家失业
Added to last week’s revelations, new filings reveal OpenAI’s lawless determination to do virtually anything to win the AI arms race, including using books from a “sketchy Russian website” and releasing products “that will make people unemployed.” 继上周披露的消息之后，新的法庭文件揭示了 OpenAI 为了在人工智能军备竞赛中获胜而不择手段的非法决心，包括使用来自“可疑俄罗斯网站”的书籍，并发布“将导致人们失业”的产品。
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally broke the law and their disdain for human authorship. （纽约，2026年9月21日）上周四在“作家协会诉 OpenAI”一案中披露的爆炸性新文件显示，两家公司的高管和员工蓄意违法，并对人类创作表现出蔑视。这是一起由知名图书作家发起的持续诉讼，指控 OpenAI 和微软非法利用受版权保护的书籍训练其产品。
The brief meticulously documents AI developers’ knowledge of the damage their actions could do to authors, publishers, and American culture itself, warning that “OpenAI’s GPT models pose an existential threat to those who write and publish books.” 该简报详细记录了人工智能开发者对其行为可能给作家、出版商以及美国文化本身造成的损害心知肚明，并警告称“OpenAI 的 GPT 模型对书籍创作者和出版商构成了生存威胁”。
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit include The Authors Guild, writers David Baldacci, Taylor Branch, Michael Connelly, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, Christopher Golden, Andrew Sean Greer, John Grisham, David Henry Hwang, Matthew Klam, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Stacy Schiff, James Shapiro, and others. Their filings mark a turning point in the case, putting the defendant companies’ guilty knowledge and reckless actions at the center of the narrative. 该诉讼的原告包括作家协会，以及大卫·巴尔达奇、泰勒·布兰奇、迈克尔·康奈利、西尔维娅·戴、乔纳森·弗兰岑、克里斯托弗·戈尔登、安德鲁·肖恩·格里尔、约翰·格里森、大卫·亨利·黄、马修·克拉姆、乔治·R·R·马丁、朱迪·皮考特、斯泰西·希夫、詹姆斯·夏皮罗等作家。他们的文件标志着案件的转折点，将被告公司的“明知故犯”和鲁莽行为置于叙事的中心。
Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger observed, “These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. OpenAI pursued its mass piracy scheme even in the face of clear evidence that doing so would degrade American culture by substituting human works with AI slop and would put thousands of writers out of work. We are grateful to our entire legal team for uncovering and telling this critical story.” 作家协会首席执行官玛丽·拉森伯格表示：“这些文件揭示了（公司）对作家及其作品令人震惊的蔑视。他们反复、蓄意地决定窃取书籍而非付费购买，且完全清楚其产品将摧毁作家的职业生涯。尽管有明确证据表明，用人工智能垃圾内容取代人类作品会损害美国文化并导致数千名作家失业，OpenAI 仍执意推行其大规模盗版计划。我们感谢整个法律团队揭露并讲述了这一关键事实。”
Alongside equally scorching but separate revelations in a brief filed by news media organizations, the authors’ brief reveals: 除了新闻媒体组织提交的简报中同样严厉但独立披露的内容外，作家们的简报还揭示了以下事实：
OpenAI and Microsoft Knew Their Systems Would Replace Human Writers OpenAI 和微软明知其系统将取代人类作家 OpenAI Policy Director Jack Clark stated in May 2020: “Our work on AI and Creativity is going to increasingly lead to us creating systems that substitute for the labor of [] people … The better we do on GPT-X, the more worried genre fiction authors will become about us substituting for them on Amazon.” He then doubled down: “Our work in this area will make people unemployed… There will be a point where a bunch of artists express worry about what we’re doing here and we’ll likely ignore their concerns and release anyway …” OpenAI 政策总监杰克·克拉克在 2020 年 5 月表示：“我们在人工智能和创造力方面的工作将越来越多地导致我们创造出替代人类劳动的系统……我们在 GPT-X 上做得越好，类型小说作家就越会担心我们在亚马逊上取代他们。”他随后变本加厉地补充道：“我们在这一领域的工作将导致人们失业……总有一天，会有许多艺术家对我们的所作所为表示担忧，而我们很可能会无视他们的担忧并照常发布……”
“Autocompleting” Other People’s Work “自动补全”他人的作品 OpenAI hired Tarun Gogineni in 2022 to lead its efforts to improve the writing quality of its models. Gogineni stated his “research mission” was to have GPT models write the “last two books of [Martin’s] A Song of Ice and Fire” series by “finishing it one day.” Gogineni even mused that he would “rest easy knowing that even if GRRM [George R. R. Martin] dies early, GPT-5 will autocomplete his series.” OpenAI 于 2022 年聘请塔伦·戈吉内尼领导其提高模型写作质量的工作。戈吉内尼称他的“研究使命”是让 GPT 模型通过“某天完成它”来写出（马丁的）《冰与火之歌》系列的最后两本书。戈吉内尼甚至自鸣得意地表示，他可以“安心地知道，即使 GRRM（乔治·R·R·马丁）早逝，GPT-5 也会自动补全他的系列作品。”
“Acceptable Economic Disruption.” “可接受的经济破坏” “Although [Gogineni] was aware of authors’ complaints that the ‘datasets are stolen’ and that authors were losing work to AI-generated competition, he did not find those complaints ‘all that sympathetic’ and instead viewed them as ‘acceptable economic disruption.’ He wrote that the world would soon experience ‘the death of the reader’ as ‘machines creat[ed] slop for more machines.’” “尽管（戈吉内尼）意识到作家们抱怨‘数据集是偷来的’，且作家们因人工智能生成的竞争而失去工作，但他并不觉得这些抱怨‘值得同情’，反而将其视为‘可接受的经济破坏’。他写道，世界很快就会经历‘读者的死亡’，因为‘机器正在为更多的机器制造垃圾内容’。”
Microsoft Knew OpenAI Used Pirated Books from the Start 微软从一开始就知道 OpenAI 使用了盗版书籍 “Microsoft knew about OpenAI’s use of LibGen as early as April 2019 when Sam Altman and Dario Amodei presented an early version of GPT-3 to Bill Gates and disclosed the use of LibGen to Gates and Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer Kevin Scott, among others.” “微软早在 2019 年 4 月就知道 OpenAI 使用了 LibGen，当时萨姆·奥特曼和达里奥·阿莫代向比尔·盖茨展示了 GPT-3 的早期版本，并向盖茨和微软首席技术官凯文·斯科特等人披露了使用 LibGen 的情况。”
OpenAI Feared “Optics,” Not the Law OpenAI 担心的是“舆论形象”，而非法律 “Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s then-Research Director, responded that ‘as a training set [LibGen is] a bit sketchier.’ [OpenAI researcher Sam] McCandlish explained: ‘I was just worried about optics – i.e. ‘openai uses copyrighted data from sketchy russian website’ showing up on [Hacker News] would be unfortunate.’” “OpenAI 时任研究总监达里奥·阿莫代回应称，‘作为训练集，（LibGen）有点可疑。’（OpenAI 研究员萨姆）麦坎德利什解释说：‘我只是担心舆论形象——即如果‘OpenAI 使用来自可疑俄罗斯网站的版权数据’出现在（Hacker News）上，那将是不幸的。’”
They Tried to Hide the Evidence 他们试图销毁证据 In an effort to cover its tracks the company called “Project Clear,” OpenAI deleted its LibGen files in the summer of 2022. “On June 15, 2022, in an OpenAI Slack channel, [OpenAI Corporate Designee] Paino asked: ‘general q: how concerned are we about mentions of libgen? (they’re all over google docs/slack/github …). That evening, [OpenAI VP of Research Bob] McGrew wrote to Paino and Nicholas Ryder: “Given how much OpenAI is in the news, now is the right time to excise Libgen from our systems and storage. What would be involved in that?’” 为了掩盖行踪，OpenAI 在 2022 年夏天启动了名为“清理计划”（Project Clear）的项目，删除了其 LibGen 文件。“2022 年 6 月 15 日，在 OpenAI 的 Slack 频道中，（OpenAI 企业指定代表）派诺问道：‘一般性问题：我们对提及 LibGen 有多担心？（它们到处都是，在谷歌文档/Slack/GitHub 上……）。那天晚上，（OpenAI 研究副总裁鲍勃）麦格鲁写信给派诺和尼古拉斯·莱德：‘鉴于 OpenAI 在新闻中出现的频率如此之高，现在是时候从我们的系统和存储中剔除 LibGen 了。这需要做些什么？’”