IA is a nonprofit and archives to preserve human history. shitty AI startups do this to monetize the data, and their end goal is to "replace" the people who made that data in the first place.

Thanks to these AI mfs the IA now prevents access to many items because they can be used as training material which fucking sucks

As a developer, you hold the copyright to your code. When you make it open-source, you grant a license to use the code and the resulting program under certain terms.

This is a contract. If you copy my code without following these terms, then that's theft.

The Internet Archive's use complies with these terms for all open-source licenses. These AI companies do not. In particular, here's a quote from the MIT license, which you will find in a similar wording in all open-source licenses:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

https://mit-license.org/

In effect, what this means, is that when you copy my code, I demand that you also copy the license text along with it, so that anyone else looking at this code knows the permissions I grant and the terms I require.

And now guess what these AI companies are doing. They copy my code and reproduce substantial portions upon a user asking, yet they do not include my license terms. They violate the contract under which they obtained my source code.

I suspect you don't realize how shit that is, because source code is so abstract.
It's like spending hundreds of hours painting a great artwork and then deciding that everyone should be able to give a copy to everyone they know, under the simple condition that they inform those people that they have this right as well.
And then comes along a company and sells my artwork for money, without informing their customers that they can pass it on for free. That's, plain and simple, a criminal operation.

Internet Archive exists as a reference for your edification on a donation basis; AI companies intend to initiate a top down societal restructuring of jobs and thus access to benefits, paywall access to your own collective information, fund themselves through ouroboros leveraged deals and VC money (value that’s been stolen from the general populace over the years)