About whether LLMs trained on books are like compressed copies of copyrighted works.
Has this happened?
Yes 29 (22%)Not sure 45 (34%)No 59 (44%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether LLMs trained on books are like compressed copies of copyrighted works.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Incredibly poor analogy. If an LLM were able to regurgitate Harry Potter on demand like xz can, the copyright situation would be much more black and white. But they can’t, and it’s not even close.