There is nothing to discuss about LibGen, really. I don't read this as OpenAI employees even believing LibGen is sketchy. They were worried about optics, because LibGen itself is Russian and does look a bit sketchy, and at the time - much like today - it was easy to make it a headline that makes people pattern-match to "troll farms".

(And then Russia invaded Ukraine, turning any association with .ru things into potential corporate suicide.)

Really has nothing to do with LibGen or with OpenAI. It's about people being easy to manipulate into believing bullshit, which is a reasonable worry, and the Authors Guild is trying to do that exact thing OpenAI was worried about.

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Skyy93 an hour ago | parent [-]

I agree with you, but I acknowledge that some people (not myself) might feel different about copyright.

	▲	TeMPOraL an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I acknowledge that, but this part isn't even about copyright! The whole "sketchy russian website" bit resolves entirely about being seen as associated or supporting troll farms and Putin. EDIT: look at it this way: no one is calling Internet Archive "a sketchy US website".