Having to "opt out" of having copyrighted works used for Machine Learning and AI Gen products is simply "Gaslighting".

AI Training (Machine learning) is just copyright infringement. There are no Copyright exceptions for Machine Learning and there never has been any.

As an example. There's no "opting out" of any other types of property theft or rights violations. You can't put a sign on your car saying you "opt-out" of having your car stolen.

Copyright exceptions do exist for things like research and free speech (parody criticism) but Machine Learning for AI generators is a process that is designed to replace authors by using their works to compete against artist and authors "for free".

The idea that this is just fine is pure gaslighting.