The lower cost is not the bad thing. Allowing an AI to learn from it and regurgitate is the bad thing. If we can put anything into an AI and then say whatever it spits out is "clean", even though it is obviously imitating what it learned from, whoever puts the investment into trying something new becomes the sucker.

Also, I don't get this weird sense of entitlement people have over someone else's work. Just because it can be copied means it should belong to everyone?