If, without asking for permission, 1 person used my work to learn from it and taught themself to replicate it I'd be honoured. If somebody is teaching a class full of people that, I'd have objections. So when a company is training a machine to do that very same thing, and will be able to do that thousands of time per second, again, without asking for permission first, I'd be pissed.

That's a terrible analogy.

Reading a book designed to instruct you how to do tasks is not the same thing as training generative AI with novels, say, to write a novel for you.

The user of the AI benefits from the work and talent of the authors with little effort of their own.