thinking about the differences in outlooks between people which have been exposed by genAI, and i think one part may just come down to whether you intuitively use a labor theory of value to appraise and attribute works. i do, so i feel the scraping and mechanical abstraction of others' effort might be some form of plagiarism or theft. to others, though, it is the marginal utility gained by the appropriation of that effort which justifies apportioning rewards to those who do so
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whenever we are taught, or learn, or create something based on the work of others, we are, in some way, benefitting from their effort, whether it be the conference speaker you listened to, or the linesman who ensured the electricity supply to your computer. if you study the design of a bass guitar, perhaps you may be appropriating the work of its builder when building your own. but none of these examples seem close to the kind of industrial-scale commodification we're talking about here