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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 9090990" data-attributes="member: 3400">Memorizing the exact content of the book, assuming it were possible (and for shorter works, it certainly is), wouldn't be a violation of copyright. The presumption would be that it's for personal use/edification. It really is the reproduction and distribution of that material without the approval of the copyright holder or invocation of some kind of approved license, beyond fair use, that would constitute a copyright violation. And that's not just in selling a reproduction of the text - it could also be a public recitation before an audience or some other performance. Now, how do you prevent an AI from violating a copyright as it uses what it has stored in some unregulated fashion? How do you keep it to fair use? Do you find a way to teach those ethical and legal boundaries? And I'd add that the copying of a work to use it to teach an AI is definitely not making a copy for personal use and I don't believe it would constitute fair use for educational purposes either. Fair use doesn't allow me to infringe on the whole of a work just because I'm saying I'm furthering someone (or something's) education, rather, I can use duly cited excerpts of the work as a part of educational material without fearing copyright violation.</blockquote>