The claim is that libraries extensive enough to contain these copyrighted works are pirated and since that doesn't put them in the public domain, I don't understand your comment.
I think it depends on what you believe. Only the title and first paragraph mention 'pirated'. The actual complaints are simply about using copyrighted material. In some people's minds, like the article mentioned Steven King and Sarah Silverman, they believe that just using their content to train a Machine Learning algorithm is somehow stealing their work. I couldn't give a shit less about their opinions, but it is a belief that many people hold. The types of Machine Learning algorithms that are involved, if they are done properly will never store a single bit or pixel of the original data, this is not how they work. My view is that training is equivalent to perceiving one's surroundings and storing impressions and abstracted memories of the perceptions. So when someone paints a painting, it is not stealing to view the painting and store an impression of it in your mind. If someone scrapes the entire internet for all published data and uses that to train an A.I., I don't consider that stealing or pirating. If they hacked into someone's personal computer, then that would be pirating.
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