Yes, but Google Books is a search engine. It doesn't write books, it just tells you where a particular phrase might occur in those books. There's explicit casel

Yes, but Google Books is a search engine. It doesn't write books, it just tells you where a particular phrase might occur in those books. There's explicit caselaw allowing you to do this, extending back before Google was even a thing. For related reasons, Google Books also does not let you read the whole book - just the page the search match came from. OpenAI and other large language model developers are claiming they have a machine that can write books, but they also fed it shittons of books, and they can't account for where all that text went. At best they can say "well, it doesn't produce exact, verbatim copies of the training set all the time".