Outcry made Adobe and other such companies put (opt-out) user controls for gathering training data, but writers, especially writers on the internet, are usually ignored. I've seen even the angriest "AI is stealing my art if you use Dall-E you're a bad person" people use ChatGPT, because they don't seem to consider writing to be art or expression as much as they do their own works.

Textual data just doesn't seem to be valued, and as a result data scrapers often don't care about annoyances such as "ethics" or "consent" when it comes to gathering training data.

Not sure how i feel about the whole thing to be honest. (legal gray area)

No. The development is a given. Where it happens is not. That’s the point. If you want to use European data to train, you’d better not have a European nexus.