The market doesn't help the post author precisely because GenAI researchers and organizations are claiming fair use in the particular way they are. The only way

The market doesn't help the post author precisely because GenAI researchers and organizations are claiming fair use in the particular way they are. The only way an artist can prevent them from appropriating artwork without permission is to somehow prevent anyone, anytime, ever from placing it into a training data set. If you make something interesting and share one copy with a friend, and that friend shares it with one GenAI researcher friend who wants training data - boom, it'll be in the training set and your only option was to never share it at all with anyone.