It's completely unsurprising that the entire train of extremely harsh, heavy handed and heavily-applied arguments about using pirated works and copyrighted materials in any way without their holder's permission get so commonly applied to ordinary people and small players of any kind, only to be swept away in legalese when the creators themselves try to use them against a large well connected industry with deep pockets and lots of lobbying weight.

Suddenly those claiming copyright have become unreasonable and legal contortions of all kinds appear from the blue sky to show why there's little basis to their claims. Never mind that much of the learning material for the LLMs of companies such as OpenAI is explained only opaquely and its legal status (pirated or not, fair use or not, etc) is ambigious at best. Considering that these uses of such material involve a huge load of of obviously commercial aims, it's laughable how biased the legal system has been in their favor so far.

I personally don't favor heavy handed copyright laws in any context but if they're going to be applied with so much snctimony by corporations, academia and governments, then at least the application should be even handed, instead of so blatantly loaded with apparent exemptions.