Only because some people named their field "machine learning" and called it "learning".
It has no relation to human learning.
If your child accidently confuses a giraffe with some other animal you correct then, you don't add the picture to their training set and show them again thousands of pictures of giraffes hoping that their success rate improves.
If you ask Stable Diffusion for a starry night, you get van Gogh's starry night.
Only because some people named their field "machine learning" and called it "learning".
It has no relation to human learning.
If your child accidently confuses a giraffe with some other animal you correct then, you don't add the picture to their training set and show them again thousands of pictures of giraffes hoping that their success rate improves.
If you ask Stable Diffusion for a starry night, you get van Gogh's starry night.