> It really is an option to publish something and not care about knowing exactly who read it, and what they're doing with it.

In a world with UBI (or in a world where creators are aristocracy who don’t have to worry about money) I would agree. In a world of precarity, obviously many people are going to desire to limit reuse of their creations unless they get rewarded for it somehow.

Except all those people performatively declaring their refusal to comment on forums and write blog posts, they're not actually making their money this way. LLMs take away nothing from them, except maybe inflated sense of uniqueness.

I can understand why all kinds of artists, who make money from their creative work, have an issue with generative models. But I feel this is unavoidable - graphics and writing and video creation will follow the same path music already did decades above. For a long time now, bands and singers don't make their living through their songs and recordings. They make it through live performances and branded merch, and related things. Music is too cheap to meter, but human connection isn't, which is why musicians make money by being entertainers. This is the fate that awaits other creative arts too.