One could always copy things without credit. It was always up to people to have ethics and cite their sources.

While we should hold AI companies accountable, I feel like this one is on the person making the LLM generate, without also making it come up with sources (which it can do!)

No, if you build a machine on plagiarism that plagiarizes on command for money, it’s absolutely your fault for making the lazy option so easy and affordable at scale.