On: Why training AI can't be IP theft

[mdp2021]

The author in the quote wrote «understanding», whereas the poster here is talking of «compress[ion]», and the two are very different.

Understanding a text is not memorizing a details-fuzzy version of it.

[basch → mdp2021]

at some threshold understanding becomes memorization which becomes the ability to recite it. it's not two different things, its points on a spectrum.

[mdp2021 → basch]

> becomes

Why should it? "The artist sees in the wild horse a metaphor of death, as expressed in the fleeting image painted with solemnity, stillness and evanescence". That could be a (sketchy) example of understanding - and it does not need a verbatim or interpolated text to be there.