They only would have 'broken the law' in this case if they tried to sell it as their own original work, which it isn't, and that is what the prompt writer in the op is trying to do.
Before YouTube's switch to "your going to watch 6 ads before the video starts, and you are going to like it," schtick, I always enjoyed getting to skip the ad before they managed to tell me what the product even was.
I think the running conspiracy is that the platform is a psyop to get idiots to try doing idiotic things they wouldn't otherwise get exposed to.
From what I've heard, the Chinese version of the app's recommendations algorithm leans towards educational content instead of topics literally trying to tear at the seams of modern society.
So I guess all of those unsupervised PPP loans that were forgiven were a nice feather in the Democratic hat, then, huh?