Why would you do that if you thought it was going to be hoovered up by some giant corporation and spat out again for $20 a month with no attribution.
― Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing
"… and now its Sam Altman’s reward too!"
― Jayden Milne (2025). https://jayd.ml/about/
I think both are true.
[B]ecause they love the subject matter and not because it is an angle to “create content” or “gain followers” or show ads.
What are you going to do with it? If you publish it, the law currently allows Google to hoover it up and there's nothing you can do about it.
In that instance, google loses value over time because less and less valuable content is published because there's no point because people may read it as an AI summary but probably aren't going to share their own findings or discuss with you anyway.