> It’s real but whether you can make a profit or not is dependent on whether you can protect the information.

That's what contracts and licenses [0] are for. Or perhaps you're arguing for a world where the only possible protection is that of trade secrets... that once protected information is made public by any means anyone can do anything they wish with it? If you are, then this quote [1] seems relevant:

  If IP is real, then the AI companies have performed flagrant theft.
  
  If IP is not real, then the algorithms and weights the AI companies have developed should also be free as they are just more information.

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754448>