Comparative market threat with and without training-data copying
Compare the market threat to plaintiffs’ books between scenarios where LLM developers can copy copyrighted books for training and scenarios where they cannot, to assess the effect of predicate copying on market dilution.
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Fourth, how does the threat to the market for the plaintiffs' books in a world where LLM developers can copy those books compare to the threat to the market for the plaintiffs' books in a world where the developers can't copy them?
— Readers Prefer Outputs of AI Trained on Copyrighted Books over Expert Human Writers
(Chakrabarty et al., 15 Oct 2025) in Discussion