I have no idea what on earth you are talking about. People and corporations are sued for copyright infringement all the time.
https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-cases-2022/
Reading and consuming other people content isn't illegal, but it also wouldn't be for a computer.
Reading and consuming content with the sole purpose of reproducing it verbatim is frowned upon, and can be sued, whether it's an LLM or a sweatshop in India.
They're sued for _producing content_, not consuming content. If a human takes copyrighted output from an LLM and publishes it, they're absolutely liable if they violated copyright.
>Reading and consuming other people content isn't illegal, but it also wouldn't be for a computer.
That is absolutely what people in this thread are suggesting should happen: that it should be illegal for OpenAI et. al. to train models on publicly available content without first receiving permission from the authors.
>Reading and consuming content with the sole purpose of reproducing it verbatim is frowned upon, and can be sued, whether it's an LLM or a sweatshop in India.
That's irrelevant here because people training LLMs aren't feeding them copyrighted content for the sole purpose of reproducing it verbatim.
Disagree, it is completely relevant when discussing computers Vs people, the bar that has already been set is alternative uses.
LLMs don't have a purpose outside of regurgitating what it has ingested. CD burners at least could be claimed they were backing up your data.