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It's specifically distribution of the work or derivatives that copyright prevents.
So you could make an argument that an LLM that's memorized the book and can reproduce (parts of) it upon request is infringing. But one that's merely trained on the book, but hasn't memorized it, should be fine.
But by their very nature the LLM simply redistribute the material they’ve been trained on. They may disguise it assiduously, but there is no person at the center of the thing adding creative stokes. It’s copyrighted material in, copyrighted material out, so the plaintiffs allege.
They don't redistribute. They learn information about the material they've been trained on - not there natural itself*, and can use it to generate material they've never seen.