It's not irony so much as it is brazenly criminal. No one should be in a position of training someone else's AI to replace their job function without consenting to it and without being compensated.
The most valuable thing AI can do right now is write code, and it couldn't do that without thousands of StackOverflow volunteers.
If you have an LLM that was trained on (say) everything on the internet except for programming, and then trained it on the Python.org online documentation, would that be enough for it to start programming Python? I've not tried, but I get the impression that it needs to see lots and lots of examples first.
No more laws to be enacted on AI in the USA for 10 years thanks to the billionaires. Pouring money into the elections have been a great ROI for the ultra wealthy.
The most valuable thing AI can do right now is write code, and it couldn't do that without thousands of StackOverflow volunteers.