[piva00]

Maybe we should start talking in terms of scale then. Yes, we humans are inherent rip off machines, melding that together with our conscious experiences is where creativity is born. We aren't capable of ripping off at industrial scales, we get inspired by other work, a few people we look up to, and over time we develop our sense of taste and use our creativity to transform all these experiences into something new.

A rip off industrial machine ingesting all creation to spit out something else is not something we've seen or dealt with before, if we ignore the scale aspect of it we are very ill-equipped to deal with the consequences.

Scale always matter. A pretty good example of that is social media, we always had the village cranks, the conspiracy theorists, etc. but given the scale social media amplifies that we are now dealing with issues never seen before.