That's just semantics. The wood would be there without the hammer, the LLM wouldn't be here without the copyrighted works it's based on.

No, thats just semantics.

>The LLM Wouldnt be here without the copyrighted works

Google wouldn't be here if it hadn't scraped every copyrighted website and used them to form a searchable graph of the internet but we only hear complaints about them when they reproduce entire news articles.