> well that would just be a great misunderstanding of what "learning" is.

You need to assume a malicious actor here, its trivial to use an AI as lossy storage, if that is legal copyright washing then large corporations will do so at industrial scale.

> its trivial to use an

You mean, "a Neural Network as function approximator for the reproduction of texts". But in fact, AI cannot be confused with that idea - and

be it AI ("system for the replacement of a professional"),

or AGI ("system implementing intelligence"),

or LLM (which can only be useful as "system with emergent properties from text generation"),

"learning" is strongly opposite to "memorizing" (as would be evident in a student - trivial example, one that would memorize a multiplication but be unable to perform it).

So, that somebody places a sticker on his apparel to fake a profession for «malicious act[ion]» cannot make us forget the real thing: "learning" is what is sought, and for learning we need the teaching material.

...Which, societally, is rightly decided as free (i.e. stored in libraries).