It's fascinating to see how stretchy the word "steals" is nowadays. You can make anything be theft - copying open online content and sharing? theft, learning from data and generating - also theft. Stealing from a physical store - you guessed it.
Theft has a definite legal meaning. So does copyright infringement.
The court can decide if it is copyright infringement or fair use:
https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/pdf/1-0-github_complaint...
