Training and copyright is going to be interesting, people can be trained on “illegally obtained” books too yet you’ll probably going to be hard pressed to make an argument that any employee who downloaded a book or a paper from “libre library” could be used as fruit of the poisonous tree argument down the line.
If the company supplied the employee with the “illegally obtained” books, that could be reason to view the situation differently than an employee acting on their own.
Since the company is obtaining + providing these models with 100% of their input data, it could be argued they have some responsibility to verify the legality of their procurement of the data.
