Scale matters. There's a difference between individual humans taking time to study copyrighted works, and so-called "AI" doing it on the scale of the equivalent of millions of man hours.
But what about that kind of scale matters to this particular area? The article spends a lot of time showing the substantive parallels between how humans and AIs learn e.g. in how they never store an exact copy, but a high-level understanding that rarely produces anything verbatim.
