I "pirated" (read) books to train myself. I guess I owe authors a percentage of my income now.
They stole a billion donuts.
The real question is whether the value of these donuts is diminished by being ingested by the AI and it's still not clear.
There thousands of posts on HN defending digital piracy, mocking the government and groups like the RIAA that make poor analogies to theft of physical goods.