Patent trolls don't use the patents they have for anything useful. Their activities are a net loss for society. This is contrasted with people (like artists or

Patent trolls don't use the patents they have for anything useful. Their activities are a net loss for society. This is contrasted with people (like artists or writers) producing something that has value. If people who make what you're calling "trash" can't make a living producing what they make, then the incentives to produce that work disappear and the content well that AI depends on dries up. Protecting people who actually make stuff is the entire point of copyright.