They want to steal all the information in the world to train their models, spend a trillion dollars on the datacenters to do the training, then block open source models under the guise of "AI safety" and jack up the prices to recover all the costs and rack up profits.

Same reason why new cars cost $80k+ in the US and there are 100% tariffs on BYD.

Shitty business models get market protections and a captive market of consumers to fleece.