What AI firms are trying to build is the artificial equivalent of a human brain. If a human learns from a source material and uses the knowledge in their career that doesn't violate the copyright law. If an artificial brain does the same then it doesn't violate it either. This is up to the courts to decide. Alibaba can't take the law into its own hands and decide what the punishment ought to be.
This also shows how Chinese firms are weak in AI algorithms, they can't build a model without stealing from American firms.
> What AI firms are trying to build is the artificial equivalent of a human brain.
We should probably leave this here, because I don't think this is even close to true (that it's what they're trying to do, or that it's what they've done—I do believe it's the sort of claim their marketing departments and investor-hype-meisters might make, though).