Back in October, I wrote about artificial intelligence, and specifically about one of the crucial questions experts still can't seem to agree on, which is whether it is going to destroy us or not. In that piece, I also mentioned the debate over whether the indexing or "ingesting" that AI large-language models do is — or at least should be — covered by the fair-use exception in copyright law. I didn't spend a lot of time on it because it wasn't directly relevant to the danger issue, but I wanted to expand on some of the points I made then, and also in a