It's a little more nuanced as AI models keep spitting out verbatim training data when people figure out the right queries. E.g. the other day they banned you from asking chat GPT to repeat the same word forever as it'd do that for a while, then just spew out something it had been trained on. If someone reads thousands of articles on a subject, then writes the exact contents of one of them, that's definitely plagiarism.

There's also the issue that when a human reads a lot, they have to pay for a lot of books and view a lot of ads and pay taxes that fund a library system buying books, too. The human extracts value from what they've read and gives something to its author. Megacorporations training AI models are only extracting the value and aren't paying for the privilege.

Man, thats so far off base youve become the first human on pluto.

You think and reason. A math program running on a big computer doesnt. So, already, you are wrong.

But the theft and plagiarism isnt from the output from the large math program that chatgpts marketing team want you to think is artificial intelligence.

The primary problem is that they never had permissiom to feed other peoples things into their picture calculator in the first place.

It would be like if I illegally printed someone elses artwork on a canvas and used it at my job as an interior decorator to decorate an office. Or if I illegally printed a copy of a board game or card game and used those copies to host a pay-to-enter tournament.

Its a calculator, not a brain, and feeding it materials you do not have the permission to feed into it is theft.

Children understand this. How old are you?