Another reason that they should never have been allowed to ingest all the books in the first place. Without paying for the rights to use the digital form of the book, a use which is explicitly prohibited by the publisher, they digitized the books anyway. If they used it to train an LLM, and the LLM regurgitates near facsimiles of all the copyrighted works without compensation to the original rights holders, that seems like something that should be illegal.

They could have put other people’s personal data in. The only thing that matters is personal data. We have a right to making sure it’s removed. Once these massive privacy risks are dealt with we can start again. But only after we have a comprehensive report of the environmental consequences of this.

We’ve all had enough of people just stomping over our rights in this move fast and break things / ask forgiveness instead of permission crap.

Do it right. And respectfully instead of abusing people’s data.