The backlash against AI-generated text is not a defense of genius, but an attempt to shield the vast amount of formulaic, template-driven content humans have always produced from a more efficient competitor. AI simply optimizes the creation of mediocrity that already existed.
The core ethical problem is not AI creating text, but humans dishonestly claiming that work as their own. The focus of regulation and criticism should be on the act of plagiarism and misrepresentation, not on the technology itself, which is merely a tool.
Blaming AI for flooding the internet with uniform, generic content is a misdiagnosis. The technology acts as a multiplier. An unintelligent user with a primitive prompt will only produce primitive output faster. The root cause of poor content remains the human operator, not the algorithm.