The damages arise from the very process of stealing material for training. The justification "yes but my training didn't cause me to directly copy the works" is

The damages arise from the very process of stealing material for training. The justification "yes but my training didn't cause me to directly copy the works" is faulty. I won't rehash the many arguments as to why the output is also a violation, but my point was more the absurd view that stealing and using all the data in the world isn't a problem because the output is a lossy encoding (but the explicit training objective is to reproduce the training text / image).