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Imagine you cut the sentence "I'm going to kill you, this is an imminent threat." out of a book and hand it to someone.

It would be silly to consider you the author of that sentence in a copyright sense.

It would be equally silly to say you have no liability from that sentence.

Looking back at the boulder example, that LLM output has no consequences to be liable for if you throw it immediately into the trash bin. It's when you take boulder.txt and use it to do things that you have liability despite not having copyright.