Nothing works without a reference to something else. Whose data? Who should be paid for this? The original knowledge creator, the thousands of businesses like P

Nothing works without a reference to something else. Whose data? Who should be paid for this? The original knowledge creator, the thousands of businesses like Politico or blogs that regurgitate and reword their articles from a myriad of sources, the people that pay to host the data that was scraped whether its original or not? Let's say I actually take the time to write a long form article with months of research and a list of references. I put it online and it, along with a hundred other articles on similar topics gets scraped. That text gets sliced, tokenized, vectorized, and whatnot. I prompt an LLM that picks a random seed and generates the output. Where did the combination of n words or patterns originate? How can one prove that "this output" was scraped from Politico? Are there ways to prove this beyond reasonable doubt? And honestly, all discussion of ethics, fairness, enforcement, etc aside; even if some sort of solution came along that somehow blocked bots from scraping data, what is stopping any hacker from pointing a camera at their screen and building a bot that uses advanced OCR to simply pretend to be an end user? I don't know how to process this future. The one thing that's stood the test of time is that information routes around censorship, for better or worse. I don't have any answers. Just endless questions about this. I understand content creators want to be paid for the value they produce. I also realize this is a hard problem and like the war on drugs, this war on information is already lost IMO. I can accept what is inconvenient. Like mosquitoes. It was lost the moment the internet was created and every nerd who's hacked since the beginning in the traditional and obscure networks knows this. Embrace the future and pivot now. What is considered valuable will evolve as it always has. It would be wise for everyone to reevaluate what produces value to other people in the future. Not what produced value in the past. Not what is producing value today, in this weird transition period. But what will produce value and demand in the near future.