so the problem is not that it is "slop" but that it works really well
and some people that create the LLMs are unethical.
Much of the copyright material used to train an AI is not copied verbatim. it is more like a "book report" and not the book. Every middle school, high school, and university student that reads a book and uses it later is guilty of what goes on in AI. Only they don't look at 1200 papers or books on a subject, they look at 1 or 2 or 5 sources ( I was taught to use at least 3 but less than 10 ). Attribution is lacking... but I didn't pay for the access to the books and papers... I read them, summarized thm,, wrote my own paper on the subject, often lifting entire passages... and included footnotes with attribution.
Like I said, AI is a tool, the internet is a tool, social media is a tool... use it, don't use it, if you are an injured party, sue the bastards. But don't blame the new tool, it is not responsible for what source material was used.