Book Piracy and AI Models

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The speaker addresses the issue of book piracy and its impact on authors and publishers, particularly in emerging markets. They also discuss the practice of using PDFs found on Google Drive to train AI models. Tips on finding and downloading scripts and movie files using specific search techniques are provided.

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