> If you are going to use someone else's work in order to make something that you are going to profit off of, I believe that original author should be compensat

> If you are going to use someone else's work in order to make something that you are going to profit off of, I believe that original author should be compensated This is insane. I learned mathematics from Houghton-Mifflin and Addison-Wesley copyrighted textbooks. Are you telling me that if I use this knowledge to, say, calculate matrices, I am violating copyright? If I read Brandon Sanderson, absorb his writing style, setting, characters, and plot devices into my subconscious, and then a year later pen a short story that happens to be Sanderson-ish, do I have to write a check to Brandon? No. LLMs are doing roughly the same thing our own brains do, at least at a high level: absorb information, and utilize that information in different ways. That's it.