Comment by nkurz

No, that's not the loophole. The loophole is that a US federal judge recently ruled that scanning a book for the purpose of training an AI is "fair use" and hence legal _if and only if_ the book is destroyed in the process. If you retain the original, you would be creating an unauthorized copy, but if the original is destroyed, then it is permissable as format shift: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/jnvwbgqlzpw/...