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A korrentour reading

Every large language model is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

Drawn from what Pieter Levels said

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What Pieter Levels actually said

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    Pieter Levels 31 Aug 2026

    Also the irony knowing that every single LLM is trained on billions of pages of copyrighted data

    I keep getting rejected by Claude for the most benign things nowlevels.io

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