[bryanlyon]

You know what else stores nearly verbatim copies of texts and then regurgitates those to the public often including direct quotes from the text? Cliff Notes.

Those aren't copyright violations. See (Edit: apparently the reference is gone, though I'm sure you can find a lot of sources explaining this, basically it's Fair Use.) for a great in depth analysis of the legality.

Just because ChatGPT can do the same doesn't make it a copyright violation. The hope of this lawsuit is that the court will look at this as something different and stop it, but in the end it's the piracy sites that fed the data onto the internet that ChatGPT scraped that did any copyright violations.