The Wikipedia article on BooksCorpus raises an important point about how researchers used the word "unpublished" to describe the books in this corpus -- this wo

The Wikipedia article on BooksCorpus raises an important point about how researchers used the word "unpublished" to describe the books in this corpus -- this word appears in both the original Aligning Books paper, as well as OpenAI's papers, which don't even bother to acknowledge SmashWords. The books aren't "unpublished" -- SmashWords is a self-publishing platform! Whether deliberately or not, the word choice diminishes the human effort that was appropriated by the researchers to train the models.