[rajman187]

Not a lawyer but would assume downloading material from libgen is, in the vast majority of cases, illegal because it's a breach of copyright or similar. That’s gotten Meta in quite a spectacle of late [1]

[1] https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2023/12/richar...

[maxloh]

CommonCrawl is composed of copyrighted contents too. You gain copyright on your work automatically the moment you created it, including this very comment.

[AmazingTurtle]

What if I repost your comment without your permission?

[fulafel]

In many jurisdictions it's just sharing that is illegal, not obtaining.

[akx]

Yes. The interesting legal question is that are you sharing the original knowledge if you've transformed it via teaching it to an AI.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ai-companies-lose-b... reports on the ongoing case on the image generation side of the fence.