But also no one is selling "your book", the product is completely different in literally every conceivable way.
you have never (and no one ever should) own words arranged in a certain way. You own the right to sell a book. Not the words themselves.
meta does bad things and im not a fan, but this really pales in comparison.
Also, to your second point, when you (speaking of any regular person) put in the number of hours, it might not be valuable. When the domain expert puts in the same number of hours, it might be very valuable.
If you have ever made an artwork you will know this fact in your bones.
Does a furniture maker credit the lumber yard?
It is a different issue if they steal your private data or your power (I mean the electrical power for the computers, in case that isn't already clear).
Making copies of published books, music, etc (and doing what you want with them) is not the bad things.
I wonder if an equivalent to Performance Rights Organizations will emerge as a channel for LLM publishers (so to speak) to pay fees.
Idk if your in the US but you also massively oversimplify in your example, copyright law is waaaaaaaay more complex than that and it would take a set of special circumstances way beyond doing what you say it siphon money from an infringment claim
That is why copyright law was originally created. Without it, there is little incentive to invest in the creation or disemmination of the works in the first place.
Edit: I am not defending the current form of those laws. The time period is too long for one thing. But removing it entirely would be a bad idea, IMHO.
I don't much see the need for our current copyright or patent law in a post-scarcity Star-Trek society, for example. Although even then, I still don't discount the need for some legal protection on creative works (e.g. the right to be known as the author).
at the same time point out that people love to apply the idea of physical objects to a digital world and I wish they would just stop trying to put the square peg in the round hole.