This YouTube thumbnail "designer" just plagiarized my work and tried to sell it back to me.

I am on the record being open to machine learning tools. I'm not one of those people who oppose AI simply because it's trendy.Look, there are many excellent reasons to be pissed off. The GenAI slop factories – in particular OpenAI, Anthropic, Microslop, Meta, Midjourney and the thousands of trashy fly-by-night whitelabelers – position their products as a way for companies to dispose of people. There are innumerable instances where the slop factories have chosen profits over people. That's inexcusable.💡You might be wondering why I didn't include X and/or Grok above. I did! I mentioned the trashy, fly-by-night whitelabelers.But I'm not generally opposed to machine learning. It's fascinating tech that's rapidly maturing, extremely capable and, when trained and used responsibly, is like any other tool.When the marketing bullshit is in full-force, though, the blame falls squarely on folks like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Dario Amodei, and the other "AI" carnival barkers.However, they're not…