> Highly disingenuous. First, AI being trained on copyrighted data is considered fair use because it transforms the underlying data rather than distribute it as is.

Your legal argument aside, they downloaded torrents and trained their AI on them. You can't get much more blatant than that.

Yes but that was one company and it is not core to their infra or product. So I don’t know how one can characterize AI fundamentally to be unethical because one company pirated some books