Comment by tw04

> I'll politely suggest that you go read the literature before engaging further.

Which commercial AI vendor has not stolen any content when creating their models? I’ll wait.

Which commercial AI vendor has created their models exclusively training on datasets created and created by other AI?

> Regardless, if they're charging for access it clearly isn't piracy so it doesn't seem like your original objection would hold any water in that case.

Given that they were previously violating the site’s terms of service when scraping the content: yes, they were absolutely stealing.