Are we really going to play devil's advocate so much that we consider these early day A"I" tools as equivalent to humans? I personally have absolutely 0 qualms about treating humans and these ML tools as completely separate entities governed by completely different laws. AI SHOULD be heavily restricted, we're already headed not towards any sort of apocalyptic singularity, but a singularity of pure, endless spam spewing forth from every orifice of the internet and elsewhere.
If these megacorps behind this AI push want it to succeed, then they should be paying for access to the images/texts/music/videos/whatever they're trying to harvest en masse. I couldn't care less if an AI learns the same way a human does or any other anthropomorphising the AI crowd want to gaslight everyoen with.