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I keep seeing this comment all over the place. Just because something exists 1 time in the training data doesn't mean it can just regurgitate that. That's not how training works. An LLM is not a knowledge database.

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It could exist many times. People can fork and clone the repo. People are likely to copy the examples and share them online.

And yet it doesn't rule out that it can't. See new york times lawsuit

From old pieces of articles that are quoted all over the internet? That's not surprising.

That's still sufficient for both The Times and for it to be a potential problem in this case.

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