In the threads, most comments dismiss the value of creators' works in building the billion-dollar businesses developing these increasingly-powerful content laundering machines, based almost exclusively on content theft.
Simultaneously, we're 10 years away from a world where staff "software engineers" go the way of human computers¹, replaced by product and marketing folks and maybe a system architect.
To those commenters, I say: I hope y'all have a Plan B.
¹ https://www.history.com/news/human-computers-women-at-nasa