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by KingMob 1077 days ago
The model weights could be seen as a derived work, for which they didn't get the permission of the original copyright holders. Alternatively, it can be argued that the LLMs are no different than a fanfic writer trying to imitate the style of their favor author.

It's not obvious which way it will go, but I can see the point of those arguing that LLM data are ill-gotten gains.