Y'know, if tech companies think crawling the entire Internet to train text and image generators is a bad thing then maybe they should stop also trying to train

Y'know, if tech companies think crawling the entire Internet to train text and image generators is a bad thing then maybe they should stop also trying to train text and image generators on Other People's Content. Alternatively if AI is just that good then anyone should be allowed to scrape and train and the resulting models should be public. If AI companies don't think they should pay for training data then I shouldn't have to pay for their models. As it currently stands Xitter[0] is trying to have their cake and eat it, too. Reddit as well. The idiots running these companies are burning everything to the ground for the sake of trying to build a new monopoly around training data rights that largely don't exist. [0] Pronounced "shitter"