Humans are special and can create new copyrights. The process of a human brain synthesizing stuff does act as a barrier to copyright infringement.
Machines and algorithms are not legally recognized as being able to author original non-derivative works.
> put a human in the place of the LLM
But also, no, if you have a team of humans doing rote matrix multiplication instead of an LLM, that does not make it so the matrix multiplication removes copyright. Also, at this point LLMs require so much math that you can't replace them with humans, even if the humans have quite fast fingers and calculators.
Machines and algorithms are not legally recognized as being able to author original non-derivative works.
> put a human in the place of the LLM
But also, no, if you have a team of humans doing rote matrix multiplication instead of an LLM, that does not make it so the matrix multiplication removes copyright. Also, at this point LLMs require so much math that you can't replace them with humans, even if the humans have quite fast fingers and calculators.