LLMs, even as a technological achievement, are trained on pirated content. That doesn't differ much from illegal obtaining and processing of data (especially for commercial purposes). In that sense processing is not individual consumption, but still consumption for model training purposes.<p>Besides piracy itself, in US legal system, there's a concept of a "fruit of the poisonous tree". The logic of the terminology is that if the source (the "tree") of the evidence or evidence itself is tainted, then anything gained (the "fruit") from it is tainted as well.<p>That would mean, that all LLMs creations would be considered as illegal. This would also apply to generated training data, in case the model would be ordered to be destroyed.