I feed all of that into an algorithm that extracts the top n% of passages and uses NLP to string them into a semi-coherent new book. No AI or ML, just old fashioned statistics. Since my new book is comprised entirely of passages stolen wholesale from thousands of authors, clearly it's a transformative work that deserves its own copyright, and none of the original authors deserve a dime right? (/s)
What if I then feed my book through some Markov chains to mix up the wording and phrasing. Is this a new work or am I still just stealing?
AI is not magic, it does not learn. It is purely statistics extracting the top n% of other people's work.