But my publisher is an ordinary human being. I have been to their house and met their family. They are not rich, in fact they are struggling.
I have also released some work under Creative Commons, so for that stuff, I am my publisher.
But, there are AIs out there that I don’t want to be trained on my work. The abomination that Palintir are building to wage war on people springs to mind. I don’t want anything to do with that.
In many jurisdictions we are allowed to assert moral rights over our work. This is the right for it to not be mutilated or perverted or attributed to someone else. In my view, moral rights should extend to assimilation by AI models.
I can’t stop individual people who I think are bad people from reading it, sure, but surely I should get a say in whether massive corporations who I think are evil can use it for their own enrichment.