If you boil it down to the AI companies are making money (subscriptions, etc.) based on content they did not pay to produce, then they are profiting from someone else's hard work.
Knowledge is shared among humanity at a rapid speed. Everyone benefits.
It’s mind boggling how anyone could be opposed to that.
Also Google respects robots.txt. Every site that Google surfaces chose to be in the index.
I said they're profiting from other people's hard work, a separate concept.