I wonder how Google built their empire. Who knows? I’m sure they didn’t scrape every page and piece of media on the internet and train models on it.

My point was that the large players have monopoly hold on large swaths of the internet and are using it to further advantage themselves over the competition. See Veo 3 as an example, YouTube creators didn’t upload their work to help Google train a model to compete with them but Google did it anyways, and creators didn’t have a choice because all eye balls are on YouTube.