Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot

Patent trolls don't use the patents they have for anything useful. Their activities are a net loss for society.

This is contrasted with people (like artists or writers) producing something that has value. If people who make what you're calling "trash" can't make a living producing what they make, then the incentives to produce that work disappear and the content well that AI depends on dries up. Protecting people who actually make stuff is the entire point of copyright.

Ideas are free, but their execution in the form of useful, high-quality written content, videos, etc is not. It’s quite expensive and time consuming to create content that is not, as you put it, merely trash on the Internet. If people hadn’t done that work, there would be nothing for these companies to train their AIs and generate profit with.