Yes, my edit was a bit hyperbolic. The point being that current AI/LLM companies have been, at best, encoding data that they do not have permission to use into their models.

It's like baking a cake, you mix in flour, butter, eggs, and bake it. Once mixed and baked you can't get the flour, butter and eggs back to their original form and the final product is completely different

It's more like baking a cake with flour, butter, and eggs that you snagged from other people's grocery baskets after they paid for them. Then, started selling the cakes made from said ingredients.

Ideally, none of that would matter because knowledge and data want to be free and everyone would benefit. However, we don't live in such a world. Instead, the technology is being used almost exclusively to extract wealth from people and make the average human being's life worse, both in the short-term by reducing their ability to support themselves and in the long-term by drastically increasing consumption of fossil fuels and potable water, putting more pressure on the biosphere.