> The idea that you can’t train on copyrighted materials is ludicrous, imho. Let us for a minute accept that it is ok to train on copyrighted materials. I don'

> The idea that you can’t train on copyrighted materials is ludicrous, imho. Let us for a minute accept that it is ok to train on copyrighted materials. I don't believe that but I'll humor you. So let's accept it. To train on copyrighted materials, they need to purchase the copyrighted materials, correct? If you wanted to train a model on all O'reilly books, you'd purchase the O'reilly books first, wouldn't you? Do you think it is ok to make illegal pirated copies of the book to do your training?