[TechBro8615]

Even if they were exposing static data, how would that be different than a search engine? Google has been scraping the web for two decades, indexing even explicitly copyrighted content, and then making money by selling ads next to snippets from that content. If you're going to make the case that an LLM is violating copyright, then surely you must also assert that Google is too, because it's the same concept, but Google is actually surfacing exact text from the copyrighted material.

[wizzwizz4]

By putting something on a public-facing website, it's generally agreed that (absent a robots.txt to the contrary), you intend it to appear in web search results, and you're granting a public limited semi-transferable revocable license to request, download and view your site to your visitors.

That doesn't mean you grant a license to produce derivative works other than search indexes. Legally, it's different. (Germany codifies these as separate "moral rights": Urheberpersönlichkeitsrecht.)