I don’t think I agree with that. A public forum is a place for public discussion. I think the word public implies that anything you post will no longer be your private content with restricted access, certainly. But you still own your content and should be able to choose if someone uses it to train a model to mimic your writing/style. For example, if we say you don’t get to own any content on lemmy then we may as well shut down the various world building communities. People who post to those certainly want to own their content, especially when they work so hard on it.

AI and LLM are still breaking ground, and the legality/ethics of training models based on others’ creative works to later mimic and claim ownership of is still being discussed. It’s different than a human being influenced by his favorite author’s writing style or art style, so there are a lot of questions in the ether about it.

In either case, I think it’s healthy to let the discussions take place, and see what direction the winds blow. I’m personally ready for people to realize that skynet is not just around the corner. I’m also incredibly sick of everyone telling me that we’re not going to have jobs in 5 years.