if someone can pump out near infinite trash for nearly no cost and earn 1% of what they’d earn by actually doing real work, they’ll continue to flood the market because it is economically viable, unfortunately

True, it’s a similar reason why spam, phishing, and various internet scams exist. Only a very small portion of what they put out generates any money, but it’s enough to keep them going and presumably more than what they think they’d earn doing real work.