I agree with you that we use analogies to name new things, and that’s the way language works.

However, you can see an airplane flying. Still, you cannot see software processes at work, and that causes misunderstandings and misinformation, which is at the core of the changes that we are experiencing with AI.

This is a fragment of another article posted here on HN about an ongoing dispute between OpenAI and the New York Times:

“The defendants say this is a simple application of fair use: Their argument is that if you read a story and simply remember what was in it to expand your base of knowledge, that cannot be considered a copyright infringement”

However, if you replace “read” with “web scraping” and “expand your base of knowledge” with “storing the information,” the perspective changes too.