I agree it is a crap comparison, just warning that even as the slop straight from the LLM is not copyrightable, blend in a little human touch up and it is "blessed" into being copyrighted. So it's of little consequence unless the operator just passes it through untouched or makes it somehow easy to identify and remove the human tweaks.

In terms of slopping up a rip off under the assumption that it would obviously be the same as the original slop operators starting point, AI companies in their defense have already stated that operators can violate copyright implicitly as they legally declared they aren't on the hook for any resultant infringement...