I see this comment all the time in this conversation and it strikes me as being in very bad faith. I would love to understand what you're trying to get at.
Because - first, in a legal sense, it seems wrong? You cannot memorize a book and then reproduce it from memory to disappear the copyright. The law on AI & copyright is very young (and I am not an expert), but artistic expression cases that involve copying (i.e. warhol) have rested on the idea that the copying is transformative in some way - but this seems in direct opposition to the idea that machines cannot create works themselves. I.e. the legal understanding that protects AI from needing to respect copyright also suggests it should not be understood to be traditionally transformative.
On a less legal level, an AI ingesting a huge amount of content and adjusting a neural network is very different from a student going to university in most ways. There are also similarities! But in a general way the direct comparison does not line up particularly well. So many complaints about Transformer-based AI exist on levels outside of the precise "agent doing the learning" (including this one).
Because - first, in a legal sense, it seems wrong? You cannot memorize a book and then reproduce it from memory to disappear the copyright. The law on AI & copyright is very young (and I am not an expert), but artistic expression cases that involve copying (i.e. warhol) have rested on the idea that the copying is transformative in some way - but this seems in direct opposition to the idea that machines cannot create works themselves. I.e. the legal understanding that protects AI from needing to respect copyright also suggests it should not be understood to be traditionally transformative.
On a less legal level, an AI ingesting a huge amount of content and adjusting a neural network is very different from a student going to university in most ways. There are also similarities! But in a general way the direct comparison does not line up particularly well. So many complaints about Transformer-based AI exist on levels outside of the precise "agent doing the learning" (including this one).