Speaking only on the programming part of the slop machine, programmers typically copy code anyways. It's not an ethical issue for a programmer using a tool that has been trained on other people's "stolen" code.
There appears to be some subset of the human species that are natural slaves. They want to be serving some master. Perhaps it's even for their own good. I don't know if there is a random variation of this trait or if it's genetic. All I know is that MAGA are of this natural slave subset.
We recently had a big day where we all gather at the organization I work at with presentations. I saw some AI graphics which is fine imo, but I also saw full COMPLETELY GENERATED slides. Nice background images, fine looking diagrams but with alien and fake text that got worse the more you stared 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. It felt embarrassing and unprofessional.
Speaking only on the programming part of the slop machine, programmers typically copy code anyways. It's not an ethical issue for a programmer using a tool that has been trained on other people's "stolen" code.