[klabb3]

> If I buy and read a book on software engineering

You're comparing that you as an individual purchase one copy of a book to a multi-billion dollar company systematically ingesting them for profit without any compensation, let alone proportional?

> do I owe the author a percentage of my lifetime earnings?

No, but you are a human being. You have a completely different set of rights from a corporation, or a machine. For very good reason.

[growse]

Does copyright law apply differently to humans Vs organisations?

> without any compensation,

Didn't Anthropic buy the books?