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Worldcat is a database of books, not the books themselves. The summary and description text might be useful though?

If you could somehow download the entire archive you could feed it into your LLM for training. This is a huge corpus and is sort of ill-gotten. That said, it would be pretty awesome.

Google has this sort of thing already, since they have that whole "let's digitize the world's books" project. Interesting as to why google never developed a ChatGPT, given that they literally have a large amount of the world's books digitized.

Google launched Bard earlier this year.

Yes, but why weren't they first?

It's like asking why wasn't X invented earlier.

Google and everyone else had no idea how successful LLMs could be until OpenAI did it.

Untrue. The whole transformer idea came from the goog team

yes, of course. AA has a special program for llm developers.