If posted to a public forum like this one, non-commercial usage is obviously required. On the biggest (i.e., for-profit) social platforms, commercial use is also required (if I’m understanding those terms correctly, at least).

There is stuff publicly available online that has restrictions on commercial use. Because I’d rather see how open source AI generation goes, I’d prefer to have non-commercial efforts get that sweet data without giving it to the major tech companies.

This sounds like an unfortunate consequence of the evolutionary pressure that has been allowed to take place within humanity for the past ~150 years. Profit is more important than anything else. So of course you’ll have sociopathic “profit-above-all-else” mindsets among influential business figures.

I think you mean the “most profitable in the next 3 months on average” decision. It certainly isn’t the best decision by any other metric.