That’s factually incorrect. You can use most of these products for free. I use ChatGPT, Perplexity, ClaudeAI, and Gemini every day without paying, and even just these free services have already improved various processes in my life.

I do agree with you on the point that we need to find better ways to compensate the people creating content—especially considering that parts of this "AI service," as we might call it, are subscription-based.

But in the long run, I’m quite sure that if everyone shared this opinion, it wouldn't move us forward technologically.

Also, a couple of other points:

    Google and others have been scraping the internet for years, and no one complained then.

    You're not paying the AI company for the knowledge itself—you're paying for the technology behind it, for the ability to access and use it effectively.