I strongly doubt anyone will care about how many years you've trained as an author if you blatantly rip off Harry Potter and sell it. Who cares? Why would that

I strongly doubt anyone will care about how many years you've trained as an author if you blatantly rip off Harry Potter and sell it. Who cares? Why would that even come up at trial? That has nothing to do with anything. It's just: (a) is it so similar to the original as to be considered derivative? (b) did the author have any exposure at all to the original? Movies, music, books: it doesn't matter. Lots of people are focusing on lots of red herrings in this thread. If the AI outputs its own copyrighted training data verbatim, it's copyright infringement, full stop.