Oh yeah. And labeling it as an "AI" further obfuscates it. But apart from small gestures catered to people whose work is very "unique" / identifiable, no one else will get a kickback. They only need to kick the ball further for a couple more years and then it'll become a non-issue as linkrot takes over. Or maybe they use non-public domain stuff, maybe they have secret deals with publishers.
Heck, sometimes even google doesn't pay people for introducing new languages to their translation thingy.
https://restofworld.org/2023/google-translate-sorani-kurdish...