[delecti]

Your argument seems to be: why stop the little guys from doing something illegal if the big guys are doing it too? We should ideally stop them all, but it isn't surprising that the blatant examples of illegality are stopped first.

[artninja1988]

If datasets are not shared externally, like how deepmind etc. does it, it is much more of a grey area. Training may well end up being fair use. So yes, the efforts of Shawn compiling books3 just levels the playing field a bit.