To me that's the one of the most depressing developments about AI (which is chock-full of depressing developments): that its mere existence is eroding long-held ethics, not even necessarily out of a lack of commitment but out of practical necessity.

The tech people are all turning against scraping, independent artists are now clamoring for brutal IP crackdowns and Disney-style copyright maximalism (which I never would've predicted just 5 years ago, that crowd used to be staunchly against such things), people everywhere want more attestation and elimination of anonymity now that it's effectively free to make a swarm of convincingly-human misinformation agents, etc.

It's making people worse.