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Because doing it a million times seriously dilutes the harm to any single content creator (assuming those million sources are from many, many different content creators, of course). Potential harm plays a major role in how copyright cases are determined, and in cases involving such a huge amount of sources, harm can be immeasurably small.
In addition to right and wrong, the practicality of regulation and enforcement is often a part of groundbreaking decisions like these, and I’m not certain this particular issue is something our legal system is equipped to handle.
I’m not sure I agree with the reasoning here, but I see their thinking.
An AI trained on a single image would also probably be fine if it was somehow a generalist AI that didn't overfit on that single image. The quantity really doesn't matter.