Because this has worked so well in previous attempts by Google, Bee, etc. Why won't this idea stay dead?

How is this not click fraud? It's like the old schemes where you were "paid" to click ads on shady applications. Instead of directly going after the users, this is costing advertisers money in clicks that have no relation with actual interest in the ad itself.

"Consumer-grade spyware operation" should not become trivialized as if it was just another day at the office. News stories about it should make that abundantly obvious.

This is actually a real problem and not just meme-material. Prior to vibe code, we already had an insurmountable mountain of technical debt piled up against most software packages (let alone legacy applications still in use). Vibe coding just made that go exponential.

Didn't OpenAI train their models on copyrighted stuff too and didn't seem bothered by it? The irony cuts deep here.