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This has always been a fairly weak argument to me. Like the vast majority of the time when you publish content online you're either publishing it under a creative commons licence or something similar, which specifically allows other people to use your works however they like and/or the terms of website your posting it on allow them to do what they want with your content which includes training AI on it or selling it for that purpose.
There's plenty of very good arguments against AI (More so companies using AI for social manipulation or to maximise profits, rather than individuals using generative AI) but the whole "they didn't ask permission" angle is usually one of the weakest.
Of course there are some cases where people like published authors have had their works stolen for training data, but that's because those books are not published to social media nor licences that freely allow their manipulation and redistribution.
What?
Stealing is OK because some people leave their door open and therefore everyone is a target???
This is nuts.
??? It's nit stealing though? If you upload something with a creative commons licence you are litterally giving anyone permission to use it however they want?
It's like donating clothes to a charity shop then getting pissed off when they sell it to someone.
Just because you don't understand how a charity shop works, doesn't mean the shop is """stealing""" from you.