They literally scraped half of youtube, made a library to extract the audio and released it as whisper.

Of _course_ they are training on your shit.

thats publicly accessible shit. my code is trade secret and IP. I would litigate that shit if a line I wrote ends up in public model, easiest money to be made.

> my code is trade secret and IP

Which is the same law that protects "publicly accessible shit".

In the same way that you can't legally just rip MP3s off the internet[1], or copy movies and distribute them.

[1] unless you're rich.

you will litigate nothing, and if you do you'll be dismissed anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Perlmutter#Firing