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It would be perfectly legal that a million government agents went it coffee shops and recorded what they heard. It is the leaving of government property on private property that is the real issue, as well as transparency... not access of information (please don't do this my government).

As far as the savant reading all the books analogy goes... it's a bit off base - mostly because the AI isn't attempting to do that... it would have to be prompted specially (which as far as I understand - what's happening: people giving verbose special prompts to 'extract' copyright... which again... extract - the verbiage regenerate is better, considering there's no guarantee the generation will be a perfect reproduction...) to generated that information. What is happening, (fixing the analogy) the savant reads all the books in the library: then someone asks him to generate a brand new book... which contains some passages that happen to be like those in copy-written works... this is 100% interoperable to what human writers do all the time. Why would we ever want to punish an AI for reading and remembering better than us?

On top of that imperfect reproduction is the sale as if it's the original... that's a lot of additional assumptions to make...

Sadly the lossless compression is also a bad analogy. Math maps and 100% translatable and thus not change/encoding to the bits... if you compresses it lossy, to the point of doing it artistically, then... if none of the bits are the same - it's not the same picture, and doesn't hold any 'bit' of the old image.

Good reply!