Speaking of incompatible business models, I'm still not clear how AI/LLM driven search is supposed to be sustainable when it means that most content is consumed

Speaking of incompatible business models, I'm still not clear how AI/LLM driven search is supposed to be sustainable when it means that most content is consumed through a middleman without the original publisher seeing a cent of revenue from it. If the AI companies manage to get the precedent that training is transformative enough to be considered fair use to stick then not even paywalled outlets are safe, someone can buy a single subscription, throw all their content into the LLM blender, and sell it on as their own product. Hell if they're feeling bold then they can just pirate the training material, as we saw with that enormous archive of pirated ebooks which is being passed around as an "AI research dataset".