If AI companies continue to grow and be successful, and if they continue to depend on scraping human-written content to train their models, and if any tech can

If AI companies continue to grow and be successful, and if they continue to depend on scraping human-written content to train their models, and if any tech can gain enough adoption to prevent AI from doing so without paying (and without hurting non-scraper readers), then creators will get paid. That is what the claim seems to be here. You can say it's a long shot, but it's not fundamentally at odds with the existing legible incentives.