It says training, not inference. I can read a copyrighted book legally and retain that information legally. I can distill it (legally) but while I might be ab

It says training, not inference. I can read a copyrighted book legally and retain that information legally. I can distill it (legally) but while I might be able to recite it, I’m not allowed to. I think that is a reasonable framework around generative AI (after all, I am alllowed to count the words in Harry Potter, so statistical modeling of copyrighted material has legal precedent) The problem with AI is of course the blurred border between a model and data compression. We can’t see the data in the model, but we can apply software to execute the model and extract both novel and sometimes even copyrighted data. Similarly we can’t see data in the zip file without extra software, but if that allows us to extract both copyrighted and copy free data, we’d still consider distribution a violation.