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>Last I looked, machines are considered unable to create copyrightable content, so your attempt to compare that to LLMs might not work in court.

That just means whatever they produce can't be copyrighted, not that they can't produce derivative works. Courts have upheld the right for google to produce thumbnails of copyrighted works, even though the procedure for producing thumbnails is done by a computer and thus can't be copyrighted.