[stevewallis]

But… how do you think the book got into the library? The state buys the book from the author’s publisher. The author gets paid their royalty. This happens with your tax dollars. This is a good thing, the library system allows authors to receive payment to provide a public good, that can educate citizens who can then make a living. Stealing their work to train an LLM to make a living is not the same thing.

[PeterisP]

Okay, then let's have libraries train LLMs on the whole collection of the books that they have legitimately obtained. I'd assume that for this particular collection of Chinese printed works, the National Library of China would also own a copy of every one of them, so the end result would be literally be the same.