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Chinese AI companies can access cheaper or free training data by training on copyrighted PDFs, which is permitted under China's different regulatory environment.
Misha Laskin · Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin · 9 Oct 2026
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“They have access to data that is much cheaper and free because you can just train on PDFs that are copyrighted in China and it's okay,”
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