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…These are court cases that will define the future of human civilization because it’s clear that data drives a lot of this, and there’s this very complicated human tension. I mean, you can empathize. You’re both authors. And there’s some degree to which, I mean, you put your heart and soul and your sweat and tears into the writing that you do. It feels a little bit like theft for somebody to train on your data without giving you credit. And there are, like Nathan said, also two layers to it. Someone might buy the book and then train on it, which could be argued fair or not fair, but then there are the straight-up companies who use pirated books where they’re not even compensating the author. That is, I think, where people got a bit angry about it specifically, I would say. Yeah, but there has to be some kind of compensation scheme. This is like moving towards something like Spotify streaming did originally for music. You know, what does that compensation look like? You have to define those kinds of models. You have to think through all of that. One other thing I think people are generally curious about, I’d love to get your thoughts: as LLMs are used more and more, if you look at even arXiv or GitHub, more and more of the data is generated by LLMs. What do you do in that kind of world? How big of a problem is that?…

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