But they're not selling that content. I cannot begin to tell you how often I encounter this exact line of reasoning.

If a painter creates an original painting inspired by Rembrandt, Rembrandt's estate doesn't receive royalties simply because his work served as inspiration.

LLMs and other AI models generate novel content. They don't simply copy established works and regurgitate them verbatim. The training process allows these models to identify patterns, relationships, and structures in enormous datasets, which they then use to generate new material.

As usual, much of the anti-AI rhetoric on this platform comes from a place of absolute ignorance regarding how these models actually work, how they function, and how they're trained.