Yeah, I'm unsure why learning without author consent is judged differently between humans & AI. Some folk are justifying the distinction "because scale", as if

Yeah, I'm unsure why learning without author consent is judged differently between humans & AI. Some folk are justifying the distinction "because scale", as if that explains anything. Why would scale matter? And what's the threshold for scale that turns freely learning into theft? I'm not being facetious; I genuinely don't see the connection.