I would relish the irony of having Google, Microsoft and Facebook complain about IP theft

whilst their AI crawlers plunder any and all copyrighted material ever placed on the internet

But other search engines already crawl Google's websites. If we want to call that IP theft. The alleged IP theft against Google would be new and of a different kind than what Google is committing.

Again, if we want to call web crawling IP theft. Which seems dubious.

This.

These are the kinds of hypocrisies that I'm talking about when I say that American companies from Amazon to Tesla are also responsible for the worsening fracture between the US and EU. Trump and Vance should not escape responsibility for their share of this fiasco. But this transatlantic break is something that was very much a team effort. And as a team we in the US have been, perhaps unwittingly, working towards this hostility for a long time.

As do the Chinese and European AI companies as well.