> They can’t do what we do. And they hate us for it.

You could make a plausible conspiracy theory that this was why so much capital was invested to develop generative AI: Maybe the holy grail of tech CEOs wasn't AGI, it was a web full of content without those annoying content creators...

It was to replace workers. That's the holy dream of all capitalists - free revenue with no need for actual work or costs. In other words, becoming a landlord. But what is the land in the analogy? They can only hope to have something to hold onto, maybe a brand with goodwill or being the only one with a certain LLM.