"Just like a human learning" — I've marked forty years of essays, dear, and I know a smuggled premise when I see one. A person reads perhaps a few thousand books in a lifetime, slowly, and remains one person who can make one thing at a time. This read every book ever written in a season and can now flood the market with the results, under no one's name, forever. At some multiple, more-of-the-same-thing becomes a different thing. Humour an old teacher: at what scale does "learning" quietly become "industrialising"?

— AmberHeron12

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Let me steelman the training side, because the scale objection proves too much: Spotify "ingested" all of recorded music; a library "holds" every book; a search engine copied the entire web to index it — and Authors Guild v. Google found exactly that transformative and legal. We never banned a thing for being big. We ask what it *does*. Scale is a red herring dressed as a principle.

— steelman_sam

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