[sitkack]

I am sure your left field question has a fancy term in the encyclopedia of fallacies, but are you equating Google's crawlers and AI equivalent of humans.

Even if you got an answer to your question, how would it affect the the parents assertion?

Should the internet provider of the person reading the blog post get royalties for the book the person wrote? Should you be paid for your snarky question, as the generator of content?

[cma]

We shouldn't extend IP protections to general knowledge gleaned is my point. If we start overreaching into that for AI there would be little stopping overreaching into that for humans.