> who has done copying? OpenAI or the user? What situations is it one, the other, or both? You are way overthinking it. Take my example of "Sam I Am" by Dr. S

> who has done copying? OpenAI or the user? What situations is it one, the other, or both? You are way overthinking it. Take my example of "Sam I Am" by Dr. Suess. I can buy access to chatGPT, and With the right prompts I can get it to print out every page of that book. How is this different from somebody selling photocopies of the book in front of Barnes and Noble? It doesn't matter what storage method or media is used. You can use a database, an LLM, translate it to swahili and back to english, whatever. If you can get somebody's IP without paying them, then axiomatically, indeed oxymoronically, their IP has been stolen.