Copyright's goal, at least under Constitution under which this court is ruling is to "promote the progress of science and the useful arts" not to ensure that authors get paid for anything that strikes their whim.
LLMs are models of languages, which are models of reality. If anyone deserves compensation, it's humanity as a whole, for example by nationalizing, or whatever the global equivalent is, LLMs.
Approximately none of the value of LLMs, for any user, is in recreating the text written by an author. Authors have only ever been entitled to (limited) ownership their expression, copyright has never given them ownership of facts.
LLMs are models of languages, which are models of reality. If anyone deserves compensation, it's humanity as a whole, for example by nationalizing, or whatever the global equivalent is, LLMs.
Approximately none of the value of LLMs, for any user, is in recreating the text written by an author. Authors have only ever been entitled to (limited) ownership their expression, copyright has never given them ownership of facts.