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The way I've heard it described: If I check out a home repair book and use that knowledge to do some handy-man work on the side, do I owe the publisher a cut of my profits?
If, without asking for permission, 1 person used my work to learn from it and taught themself to replicate it I'd be honoured. If somebody is teaching a class full of people that, I'd have objections. So when a company is training a machine to do that very same thing, and will be able to do that thousands of time per second, again, without asking for permission first, I'd be pissed.
That's a terrible analogy.
Reading a book designed to instruct you how to do tasks is not the same thing as training generative AI with novels, say, to write a novel for you.
The user of the AI benefits from the work and talent of the authors with little effort of their own.
So how about someone who loves to read books wants to become a writer, and uses the plot twists, characters, environments, writing style of books they already read.
Does that fall under copyright?
Depends on how close it is... But at least they are doing the effort of writing vs merely coming up with prompts for the AI.