You can make an argument that training an LLM on something is not the same as copying it in the same way that your brain is not in breach of copyright for having watched a Disney movie. I'm not sure of the rights and wrongs of that but it complicates legal action.

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nemomarx 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Can I download an archive of movies so a human animator can study the techniques there?

Surely you have to make the copy to feed it into the llm for training, so

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tim333 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I think some of the LLM companies have used legally purchased materials.

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nemomarx 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you happen to have an example? The closest I can think of is adobe for images, but I've never heard of a text based llm trained purely on legally acquired books.

	▲	tim333 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's stuff here on Anthropic https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1lkv2r9/anthropic_de...