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It's a bit ridiculous that a computer is allowed to read books from pirated sources but a human isn't. If you legally buy a copy of a book I don't think the law should distinguish between a human reading it vs an ML system reading it, but training your ML system on a torrent of books that a human couldn't legally read seems a lot worse.

>>strken+(OP)
> It's a bit ridiculous that a computer is allowed to read books from pirated sources but a human isn't.

Where does this come from? If I visit your house and you have a Kindle with pirated books, am I liable? Or just you for doing the actual pirating and downloading them?

Are AI companies except from the restrictions of accessing copyrighted material they legally are restricted from?

Serious question.

I remember an article recently about someone suing an AI company claiming that they must have illegally accessed material, but I can't find it now to know how it turned out.

>>LeafIt+l6
I'm thinking specifically of companies which used the books3 dataset (a rip of the private tracker bibliotik) to train LLMs.

I was wrong about it being legal, however, and there are ongoing lawsuits.