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> then any exception of this kind will harm their legitimate interests

Pray tell what legitimate interest of the author is harmed by LLM's training on that work? No one is publishing the authors book.

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The legitimate interest that there does not exist a tool that allows any random person to create art in the same style as she does? Which could arguably devalue their offering?

No such interest has been granted by copyright. You can create a painting today in the style of any trending artist without issues.

What I think the parent meant is the interest to sell license to others to train on their data.

Exactly. Some copyright holders do license their work for AI training. It certainly happens in the music industry, but I don't see why texts would be any different. The exception would harm their business.

Example please? It's always been fair use to train on accessible data. It's how for eg: so much of research has been going on for decades.

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