"I'll keep saying it every time this comes up.
I LOVE being told by techbros that a human painstaking studying one thing at a time, and not memorizing verbatin but rather taking away the core concept, is exactly the same type of "learning" that a model does when it takes in millions of things at once and can spit out copyrighted writing verbatim."
Personally I think they argue that way because they get off on being contrarian out of spite, but to me it's just a signal of maliciousness and stupidity all at once.