[dfedbeef]

The penalty for willful infringement in the US is pretty steep per instance.

[thedevilslawyer]

Good point to think about. What specific act of training is infringing? Looks like none in this case, but happy to be corrected.

[dfedbeef]

Downloading and reproducing the pirated copy of the work. It's called a COPYright for a reason.

[thedevilslawyer]

Downloading is completely legal towards fair use (and hence non infringing).

No reproduction happens in the act of training an LLM.

[AlexeyBelov]

Username checks out.