Human learning and machine learning aren't even close to similar and pretending like they are is very stupid.
Let’s try to elevate the conversation: there is a newly published author MrX. His book combines themes from many copyrighted works in a novel way and is a critical and commercial success. There is no allegation of any copyright infringement around the work. Suddenly information comes out that MrX used LLMs heavily in the creation of the book and the LLM was trained on copyrighted works.
Do you think MrX owes licencing fees to those other authors? And which ones? All the ones in the training set? Just the ones which has thematic/stylistic similarity to his work?
How come those thematic/stylistic similarities only matter if MrX used an LLM and don’t matter if he used his own head?
Die mad about it