Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except the school paid royalties for that specific book. Every book. The money was distributed. Writers, publishers and so on. The normal stuff. Or if you had to buy the book yourself, same thing, distributed, royalties paid.
So your complaint is that they didn't pay for training data by buying every book found online? That does seem more reasonable, but makes public libraries also evil.
For LLMs the transformative part is then removing the copyright info and serving it to you as OpenAI whatever.
Sure, you can query multiple books at the same time and the technology is godlike. But the underlying issue remains. Without the original content, the LLM is useless. Someone took all the books, feed them in and didn't pay anything back to the authors.
I'm not sure whether arguing in good faith here. This information you could easily check for yourself too. The problem is not the information itself. It's the massive machinery that steals all the works and one day we are staring at the paywall. And the artists are still not funded. I'd rather just do something nice offline in the future.