She definitely knows, she’s just trying to avoid any chance of future litigation by feigning ignorance. Makes sense since OpenAI’s been getting a lot of bad press for using copyright data in training their models.
For these companies it’s especially important since even if copyright claims will come down the line they need to become big enough to be able to push back on them so they could force a favorable settlement.
Being sued in general is not that great of an indicator for anything, in a world filled with lawyers and angry people.