“Someone who publishes my work […] or republishes my work […] doesn’t have the right to make the choice for me to let my content be used for training AI.” Fair

“Someone who publishes my work […] or republishes my work […] doesn’t have the right to make the choice for me to let my content be used for training AI.” Fair enough, but what does that have to do with the default value of robots.txt? Opt-in or opt-out, they’re still making the choice for you.