Before issuing the claim that AI theft is not being theft if Megacorp Rights Holder A unilaterally makes a deal with Megacorp AI Service B…
…many (most? all?) of those rights holders made the deals for those rights from the original creators before the advent of slop machines. So even if it's technically legal that they can now allow *endless* variations of that content via the slop machines, that doesn't mean it's not, morally speaking, theft.