Dutch LLM Taken Down Following Legal Pressure from Anti-Piracy Group

tl;dr

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN announced that one of the largest Dutch LLMs ‘GEITje-7B‘ was taken offline as a result of their efforts.

This LLM was trained on ‘Gigacorpus’ a dataset of books and texts previously targeted by BREIN, including a vast collection of Dutch texts and books, some of which contained copyrighted material sourced from the shadow library LibGen.

As far as I know, this is the first time LLMs are taken down based on their training on copyrighted materials.