> but illegal to train on output of LLMs.
Since when?
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.
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.
ToS are usually not worth the toilet paper they're printed on. They're not legally binding.
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.
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.
ToS are usually not worth the toilet paper they're printed on. They're not legally binding.