Isn't this just the pay raise the Japanese company is forcing everyone to do? They're pretty late. A bunch of other companies announced their raises earlier this year. Doing this in October comes off as scummy.
As long as your AI doesn't somehow infringe on your training data, you're allowed to use whatever you want, just like reviewers, analysts, and indexers do.
Negative Positive Angler was pretty good. I'm going to be picking that one up too.