No, I'm talking about the line between learning and memorization. Not the overall line between human intelligence and modern-day AI (where there are certainly o

No, I'm talking about the line between learning and memorization. Not the overall line between human intelligence and modern-day AI (where there are certainly obvious distinctions). Let's say, for example, that a human who was not a native-born English speaker taught themselves to speak English solely by listening to hundreds of copyrighted English fiction audio books, and comparing them to translations of those same works of fiction in their own native language. (Maybe not the easiest way to learn English, but entirely possible.) Now suppose that human used their newfound mastery of the English language to teach someone else to speak English. Since their knowledge of English was solely derived from copyrighted works, would their knowledge of English be considered a derivative work and therefore subject to copyright? Obviously not. Now suppose the same thing occurred with an AI. The AI learned to translate some other language into English by reading hundreds of thousands of translated books in both languages. Is the AI model a derivative work, and therefore subject to copyright?