This2ShallPass

Yes, just because the source code is available doesn't mean it is licensed for others to take. Now we have AI tools that have scraped the web for all of its content and won't see the difference between source available, open source , and free and open source. It is possible that those who use AI tools could be unknowingly using code without the license to do so.

Now that all he major AI companies have scraped all of the YouTube videos, Google wants to prevent others from getting into the market.

This argument in this article is poor. An analogy would be:

"Because donating free food to the poor might feed future criminals, we should no longer provide free food."

Why not go 100 percent corporation free? https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html