I'd say it violated the spirit the law but not the letter.

HOW? - why say such a thing and not _show_ it. show the letter that was not violated and where this spirit lives.

so many people giving their feelings about laws, about 1s and 0s. -_- what is this stack overflow?

Laws are not code, they are subject to interpretation by the judiciary. The spirit of the law is that transformative use is fair use, but at the time those laws were written no one had conceived of generative AI.

It seems very reasonable to me that we as a society might stop and reassess. It is not a foregone conclusion that all the treasure of humanity be handed over to @sama for a tuppence.