> In principle, an AI learning from a scientific textbook is no different than a human student doing the same. Neither will violate copyright law when they're d

> In principle, an AI learning from a scientific textbook is no different than a human student doing the same. Neither will violate copyright law when they're done learning If AI were only learning from scientific textbooks very few people would have problem with it. When AI learns from creative works like novels, it runs into the same problems we have as humans. We can read a book, but the minute we start distributing copies of it from memory we're in legal trouble.