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For the same reason that you can make a similar-looking chair, but you can’t distribute a fuzzy copy of Star Wars. The char isn’t a copyrighted work.

"The char isn’t a copyrighted work."

An Eames chair is, we just have a really high bar for what is copyrightable in the physical world, and it seems pointlessly discriminatory.

Uhuh so it seems that you weren't, in fact, asking a "Real question", but came here for an argument.

there are also fan remakes of movies like this one. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3528906/

I'm not a lawyer but this does seem like they're wholesale copying ideas.

Furniture designs can be covered by varying intellectual property laws.

I suspect chairs have been public domain since the advent of man.

Honestly? I don’t know, I don’t have a whole coherent ethos about LLMs.

But I do know someone definitely paid for the textbooks I used when learning in school.