# Training Data Becomes a Priced Legal Liability

Courts and settlements will increasingly attach concrete per-work damages to how model builders acquired their training corpora, turning data provenance into a recurring, quantifiable cost of building frontier models and shifting value toward licensed data.

- Conviction: 40 / 100 (forming)
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