They could do that, just as much as someone could pull videos and songs from youtube and use that to train a model. Its public content, so if people wanted huma

They could do that, just as much as someone could pull videos and songs from youtube and use that to train a model. Its public content, so if people wanted humans and machines to not access it then don't publish on a public platform. One can argue about ToS and copyright, about different interpretations of fair use, derivative work, DRM protections, and so on. Usually people are not interested to discuss finer details of those things. Most people seems to want to perceive it as either being public or not public, in which case, Youtube is just as public as PyPi.