It feels like you are hearing what I'm not saying. I'm aware that LLMs as a technology are here to stay. I'm aware that the existence of slop is not an existential threat to the practice of art. Frankly, I wasn't one of the folks bothered by AI training piracy, as long as the companies involved weren't hypocritically attempting to protect any of their own IP. Neither of these points are material to my stance that a business model that relies on destruction without producing a more valuable output is not a societal good and that an optimal market (i.e.: one that optimizes for societal good) would not allow such a business to be sustainable or exist at any kind of capital-intensive scale. The fact that the market we have is bending over backwards to allow companies like this to continue to exist is bad. I couldn't give two shits what tech is involved, destruction of art at the industrial scale in order to produce slop at digital scale is a bad thing