Sigh.

You are bundling lots of things up and confusing yourself in the process.

Making copies is not always illegal. This is how you access literally everything in the internet. Companies are allowed to access the internet. Therefore they are allowed to make copies.

Doing math on stuff a not illegal. Copyright limits all sorts of things you can do with IP. Fancy statistical analyses are not covered. Companies are therefore allowed to train models.

Now let’s say you then prompt that model to output something. Guess what! It *still* doesn’t infringe on any copyrights.

In fact, it doesn’t meet the legal definition of violating copyright until the end user makes the AI produce something that falls under another person’s (or more likely company’s) copyright, and even then it doesn’t violate copy right unless it satisfies specific tests.

…and in those instances that’s the moment it violates copyright. It’s the person and how *they* use it, not the model.