[chvid]

It is legal to train LLMs on books but illegal to train on output of LLMs.

Perfect - an absolute steal for 1.5B.

[TeMPOraL]

> but illegal to train on output of LLMs.

Since when?

[inigyou]

They're probably confused with anthropic seething about "distillation attacks" coming from "fraud accounts". But that is not the law, that is just Anthropic being upset.

[chvid]

Typically the big LLM providers write in the their ToS that it is prohibited to use their output to train another LLM.

Whereas for a book it is fair use.

[TeMPOraL]

ToS are usually not worth the toilet paper they're printed on. They're not legally binding.