> That said, if you zoom out to the overall conduct, it's fair to argue that the companies are doing something unethical, the same as if they paid an army of hu

> That said, if you zoom out to the overall conduct, it's fair to argue that the companies are doing something unethical, the same as if they paid an army of humans to memorize other people's work and then regurgitate slightly-reworded copies. I would use the analogy of those humans learning from the material. Like reading books in the library "regurgitate slightly-reworded copies" in my experience using LLMs (not insubstantial) that is an unfairly pejorative take on what they do