> so do you not claim that a student learning off textbook No, these are not the same. A student has mental faculties that ChatGPT does not. The understanding-

> so do you not claim that a student learning off textbook No, these are not the same. A student has mental faculties that ChatGPT does not. The understanding-free predictive text processing of ChatGPT is the whole deal of that software. A student does not require 10 thousand textbooks as examples in order to understand a concept. Students do exhibit originality and reasoning that is not in the training data. You should not equate them. > assuming the training data is paid for via a one time fee Why would you assume that, when the links provided make it clear that this did not happen?