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Websites and any business really, have the right to impose terms of use and deny service.

Anyone circumventing bans is doing something shitty and ilegal, see the computer fraud and abuse act and craiglist v 3taps.

"And those LLMs didn't ask anyones permission to crawl the entire 'net."

False, openai respects robots.txt, doesnt mask ips, paid a bunch of $ to reddit.

You either side with the law or with criminals.



Is that also how e.g. antrhopic trained on libgen?

You can't even say the same thing about openAI because we don't know the corpus they train their models on.




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