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> But let's not forget that if author cannot live of what they create, they, for the most part, won't be able to continue creating.

At least when it comes to academic publishing the authors are not paid by the publishers. They may even have to pay for the privilege of publishing. That payment along with the payment funding the research in the first place often came out of your own pocket in the form of state funding for the research.

Obviously there is a lot more than papers there, but papers are a major thing an LLM might be going there to access.

Then you have the issue of works where the user has purchased a copy but the only practical way to get a non-DRMed electronic copy suitable for use by their AI is the shadow libraries.