IMHO, an LLM is not "reading" a book in any way, certainly there is no parallel with how people read. It is encoding the book. That's how it can regurgitate chu

IMHO, an LLM is not "reading" a book in any way, certainly there is no parallel with how people read. It is encoding the book. That's how it can regurgitate chunks of that book later, including, in some contexts, by providing verbatim spans of text from the book.