> how Google built their empire. Who knows

By scraping every page and directing the traffic back to the site owners. That was how Google built their empire.

Are they abusing the empire's power now? In multiple ways, such as the AI overview stuff. But don't pretend that crawling Youtube and training video generation models is the same as what Google (once) brought to the internet. And it's ridiculous to expect Youtube to make it easy for crawlers.