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it would be a shame if it would be possible to train a very useful AI using all the books in the world but corporate greed wouldn’t allow it

It's pretty much the opposite: Big corporates are the ones training the models (and benefiting from it).

Either way, it has to happen, and it will happen. It might as well happen on universally-equitable terms.

Other big corporation hold a large portion of copyrights trained on as well. I tend to side with everyone being able to do it

Everybody with a few million dollars to spend per training run of their model in pure compute cost…

What if I don't want my book used for that purpose?

It isn't as though the AI companies have even paid for a single copy of the authors' books.