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And (most) people buy those copyrighted books.

• imgabe 3y ago
  Libraries exist. Borrowing books from a friend exists. Even if you stole the book, using the knowledge you learned from it to make money is not copyright infringement. If you steal a book about how to make money flipping houses and then start flipping houses, at worst you are on the hook for a minor theft. The author can't sue you for illicitly learning to flip houses from the stolen book. That is just not how that works at all.
  • data-ottawa 3y ago
    The library is allowed to lend out books, they're not producing copies. I can lend you a book without producing a copy. I can steal a book without making a copy. I can learn from a book without making a copy. ChatGPT was trained by copying works into a dataset and using that for commercial purposes. Surely you can see how that's different.