[gruez]

>when we are talking about a person learning something from a webpage or book and something completely different when a webpage or book is used to adjust some weights in a matrix

What material differences exist between the two besides "humans good, computers bad"?

>Calling that learning is a distraction from the real copyright violations going on.

Most courts so far have ruled that it counts as fair use.

[mark336]

I thought fair use was dead after Napster

[gruez]

No, only the type of "fair use" that people slap on their youtube uploads, thinking them it gives them a "get out of jail free" card for copyright infringement. Fair use was repeatedly affirmed in the 2010s, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....