I’ve been in this business, writing software professionally, since I started my first software business at 16 in high school on an Apple ][. That’s 45 fucking years. It would never occur to me to steal other people’s code, let alone their likenesses, voices, or art.
Just eject these thieving “AI” companies into the sun. These people, and the VCs that fund them, are a cancer on the software industry.