Even if they had bought all the books, wouldn’t people still be mad they trained an AI with it? I doubt it would quell the “It can emulate an Author’s style” complaints.

Maybe, but that part's settled.

> the court ruled last year that training Llama on books was fair use

That’s just the US though right?

I attempted to kill him but he didn’t die! People would still be angry if I killed him

Lol I more mean that at the time they were likely just looking for training data to make a better model, and only recently did people figure out it could “steal people’s style”. If that second part didn't happen I don’t think people would have gotten so mad about the first part.

To say it more plainly, if AI would have wound up being a helper instead of a “job stealer” I think people would have thought of it more like a google ranking than an enemy.

(By the way I didn't down vote you)