They already did and paid 1.5B https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/wh...
Quite amusing that the library of libgen is worth 1.5bil for unlimited access.
It's about the same valuation as bun, lol.
Meta/Facebook got away with it though right?
That's a great cost-benefit ratio. Can you and I steal and do illegal things and pay the same cost?
That's only a fraction of the training data.