Why as an artist should I assist in my own demise? If you are coming gunning for my way of life and skill I've spent half a lifetime developing, my very purpose

Why as an artist should I assist in my own demise? If you are coming gunning for my way of life and skill I've spent half a lifetime developing, my very purpose, don't expect me to just roll over and help you. We still own the rights to all our material. I don't see why we can't en mass expressly forbid the use of any of our creative works in machine learning training sets. That's a specific and measurable point where our material is inserted in to a machine without prior permission and with malicious intent towards us.