I buy a book and give it to my child, they read the book and later write and sell a story influenced by said book. should that be a copyright infringement?

how about they become a therapist and sell access to knowledge from copyrighted books? should that be an infringement?

what if they sell access to lectures they've given including facts from said book(s) to millions of people?

it's understandable that people feel threatened by these technologies, but to a great degree the work of a successful artist is to understand and meet the desires of an audience. LLMs and image generation tech do not do this. they simply streamline the production

of course if you've worked for years to become a graphic designer you're going to be annoyed that an AI can do your job for you, but this is simply what happens when technology moves forward. no one today mourns the loss of scribes to the printing press. the artists in control of their own destiny - i.e. making their own creative decisions - will not, can not, be affected by these models, unless they refuse to adapt to the times