>I also don't think ... that training on a book or image decreases the market for the original book or image. ... zero folks that want to read Game of Thrones are asking ChatGPT to generate Game of Thrones ...

For now. But when you can generate work in the style of an artist without paying that artist, I would. More importantly, media production companies will and so will use access to people's post work to put them out of work now.

We need to distribute the benefits, we're drifting towards copyright infringement being allowed by rich corporation (with resources to generate "AI") as long as they abstract it through a transformer, or whatever.