In terms of copyright, yes it is. It doesn't matter that the book isn't literally copy-pasted into a vector database. The text is used verbatim as training data, and from there isn't made into a sufficiently transformative work to constitute fair use (plus it's commercial). Training data, even if it can neither be recalled on demand nor exists in whole form, has still been stored within the model's semantic memory.
In terms of copyright, yes it is. It doesn't matter that the book isn't literally copy-pasted into a vector database. The text is used verbatim as training data, and from there isn't made into a sufficiently transformative work to constitute fair use (plus it's commercial). Training data, even if it can neither be recalled on demand nor exists in whole form, has still been stored within the model's semantic memory.