The penalty for IP theft is monetary, and the monetary penalties are independent on whether it creates value. Companies routinely sue people for distributing p

The penalty for IP theft is monetary, and the monetary penalties are independent on whether it creates value. Companies routinely sue people for distributing products they literally no longer sell, it does not matter. In the same way that when someone steals your tv, they don’t get to just return or pay for the TV if they’re caught. If an AI company is consuming your work, it definitionally has value, and they have no more right to it than you have to any of their property. Now if one of these companies is happy to let you take, use, and/or charge for their services without paying them then I’d wouldn’t consider them hypocritical thieves, but they don’t, so I don’t. It like all the “AI” trained on OSS software. That has value to you, literally the entire look t of licenses like the GPL is that that software has value, and you are in no way giving it away for free, and the license explicitly requires compensation.