The answer is in your question. "Empty calories" is a multi trillion dollar business in the food world. It will be the same in the digital world.
What need does filling the Internet with AI-generated slop serve? No one is ever going to read those. As I've shown, sometimes they're not even selling anything.
The multi-trillion dollar business is for hyperscalers, but I don't get what slop creators get out of this. What are they spending money for?
To prepare for the future use of these resources.
One of the most globally recognized attribute of the recent US-Iranian war was the Lego cartoons. This sort of content will be soon churned out by everyone.
You can do fifty times more of them with AI, though.
that a human studio can make similar things is irrelevant; they're aiming for volume, one that is utterly all-encompassing, and they will succeed in that effort.
marketing is simply the same idea but pushed towards economic ends. instead of flooding the zone with memes to curate an entirely GOP worldview, they curate a lifestyle that creates anxiety that can only be remedied by buying a comically large pickup truck