Because lots of AI firms literally pirated books to train their model. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llama/ https://shkspr.mobi/b

Because lots of AI firms literally pirated books to train their model. See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llama/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/07/fruit-of-the-poisonous-llam... Neither the authors nor publishers received any compensation for having their work ingested. It isn't like OpenAI went to Amazon and bought one copy of every book - they downloaded a torrent.