Meta isn't arguing that, though. They are arguing their use is one of the loopholes in copyright law where they aren't liable for the damages. Even them succe

Meta isn't arguing that, though. They are arguing their use is one of the loopholes in copyright law where they aren't liable for the damages. Even them succeeding would only demonstrate that LLM training is transformative, and would not impact the common uses of piracy for average folk. I would also be stunned if they make that argument. There is almost undeniably some number of dollars Google/Meta would have paid for the data. It may be less than publishers would want, but I don't anyone would actually believe Google/Meta saying "if the data wasn't free, we just wouldn't have done AI".