So here's a related thought... Google is currently being sued by journalist Jill Leovy for illegally downloading and using her book "Ghettoside" to train Googl

So here's a related thought... Google is currently being sued by journalist Jill Leovy for illegally downloading and using her book "Ghettoside" to train Google's LLMs [1]. However, her book is currently stored, indexed and available as a snippet on Google Books [2]. That use case has been established in the courts to be fair use. Additionally, Google has made deals with publishers and the Author's Guild as well. So many questions! Did Google use its own book database to train Gemini? Even if they got the book file in an illegal way, does the fact that they already have it legally negate the issue? Does resolving all the legal issues related to Google Books immunize them from these sorts of suits? Legally, is training an LLM the same as indexing and providing snippets? I wonder if OpenAI, Meta and the rest will be able to use Google Books as a precedent? Could Google license its model to other companies to immunize them? Google's decade-long Books battle could produce major dividends in the AI space. But I'm not a lawyer. 1. https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/LeovyvGoogleLLCDocketNo523cv03440NDCalJul112023CourtDocket/2 https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/LeovyvG... 2. https://books.google.com/books?id=bZXtAQAAQBAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=bZXtAQAAQBAJ