Yup, exactly. I'm sure Google represents strings of text from pages in some internal format, but relatively verbatim. Even represented verbatim, because their

Yup, exactly. I'm sure Google represents strings of text from pages in some internal format, but relatively verbatim. Even represented verbatim, because their output is a search result and not an article that uses the copyrighted text verbatim there's no copyright violation. And models don't even use data verbatim, if they do they're bad models/overfitted. People are making all sorts of arguments but they seem to boil down to "it's fine if humans do it but if a machine does then it's copyright violation". People often disregard the fact that copyright law is woefully outdated (an absolute joke in itself, which can't be used to defend anything since Disney shoved it's whole fist up copyright law's...) and should really be extended for the modern world. Why can't we handle copyright for ML models? Why can't animals have copyright? It's extremely trivial to handle these cases, the point of copyright is usage and agency comes into play. If people want to be biased against machines, then fine. Be racist to machines, maybe in 2100 or so those people will get their comeuppance. But if an ML model isn't allowed to learn from something and use that knowledge without reproducing verbatim, then why is predictive text in phone keyboards allowed? Everyone out here acting like they're from the Corporation Rim.