LLMs Copyright Infringement as a Service

Let us start with the uncomfortable truth: large language models - ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and their peers - are built on a foundation that looks suspiciously like “copyright infringement as a service.” These systems could not exist without consuming massive quantities of human-created text, images, and code. In another industry, that would be called derivative work. In AI, it is called innovation.