Or like providing the world’s information in machine readable format that the AI companies can convert into model weights without getting permission or compensating the rights holders
This idea that absorbing information requires paying a toll needs to change. It was never the case in copyright law anyway (and the courts are beginning to agree). Even if it were, copyright law was founded on the basis of encouraging creativity by creating an economic incentive. Appeal to "compensating the rights holders" therefore needs to be based on the economics, not just some principle about "rights" that never applied to this case anyway.
Slightly more seriously, you could perhaps make an argument that, just like weight decay, an apparent "anti-contribution" moves the learning trajectory along, and helps the network settle into a more optimal basin eventually.
That way, my contribution is still valuable on the net, and I'm owed $0.00000003 positive dollars instead.
Was that not the joke?