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How could they have trained on books that they didn't buy or source from libraries?

I'm afraid, the companies in question, have been more than happy to ingest pirated material.

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Game copies don't usually include their source code.

Older games tend to have their source code leaked [0], and cracks generally are designed from reverse engineering, revealing parts of how systems work.

And the forefront models have intentionally been trained on quite a bit of reverse-engineering.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...




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