Considering that surveillance capitalism is stealing privacy for money, the two are not far apart. And in this case, the "AI" companies are literally trespassi

Considering that surveillance capitalism is stealing privacy for money, the two are not far apart. And in this case, the "AI" companies are literally trespassing on the property of almost everyone on the internet, using it without permission, in order to cash in. Freeloading on the work of the entire agora, privatizing the profits, and letting the costs of destroyed privacy fall on anyone but them. IOW, standard exploitative capitalism. No different from stealing the minerals from under someone's land without compensation, and leaving them to cleanup the mess. In this case, hijacking everyone's published work without permission, taking the profits, and ignoring any privacy damage for the people whose work was critical to the enterprise. It would not have been hard to log the inputs and offer/issue fractional shares to everyone whose work was used, and the right to refuse. But, like costs of remediating mining, they'd rather not bother with that unprofitable part. It's kind of important to notice when you are being abused and care about it.