> A pencil can be used to recreate copyrighted works. This is a very weak argument. A pencil, an empty USB stick, an LLM without weights, and a small child ca

> A pencil can be used to recreate copyrighted works. This is a very weak argument. A pencil, an empty USB stick, an LLM without weights, and a small child can all be used to reproduce copyrighted works. A USB stick with a copy of a movie on it, an LLM trained on a book, and a human that has watched a Disney film can all actually infringe copyright. There's an issue beyond copyright, though. A lot of companies seem to think it's okay to train LLMs on data that they at least have no moral rights to and possibly have no legal rights to either. (A TOS saying that anyone posting anything privately, IMO, does not mean that the person posting it had rights to it, nor do I believe that fine print ought to give anyone rights to anyone else's private information.) And a person that read all your email and an LLM that has been trained on all your email can both easily infringe your rights to privacy.