[crazygringo]

Obviously, on the inside, the process that a person goes through in learning and creating, and the process that a LLM goes through in learning and creating, is very different. Nobody will dispute that.

But if they're learning from the same kinds of materials, and producing the same kind of output, then obviously the comparison can be made. And your idea that LLM's don't create seems obviously false.

So I have to conclude the two seem comparable, and someone would have to show why different legal principles around copyright ought to apply, when it's a simple question of input/output. Why should it matter if it's a human or algorithm doing the processing, from a copyright perspective? Nothing "wacky" about the question at all.