Many things become legal when the perpetrator has money.

The golden rule:

He who has the gold makes the rules

I like the IA as much as anyone else, but surely there's a significant difference between distributing literal word for word exact copies of copyrighted material and distributing statistical indexes about copyrighted material right?

LLM’s are turning out to be a real get-out-of-legal-responsibilities card, hey?

This is a good soundbite but doesn't make sense. The Internet Archive had to pay for redistributing copyrighted materials. Anthropic just paid too. (Note: redistributing != training)