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I posted about that in the AI thread. Seems a bit tenuous as a case really. If someone gives me 10 Cormac McCarthy books and says "read these and write something in the same style" I haven't violated any copyright by doing that unless I print sections of it verbatim. Even that is allowed in some circumstances. I'm a human, not a machine, so that's a distinction, but the basic idea of copyright is the same, you don't own a style and you can't stop someone parsing your work and then using it to do something else
Seems like we need to update copyright laws now that generative "AI" is here essentially. Both attribution when someone uses one to generate something, and use of copyrighted material in training them, are areas where there's a bit of a hole in the law. Personally I'm not sure where the line on copyright infringement should fall really but few people have any sympathy for these big companies who aggressively pursue people for copyright stuff. Just like with Spotify, YouTube, etc. it's big businesses who will win out of the case and your average artist won't see a penny.