I think the question might be a little too general to get good answers back. But it's an excellent question IMHO, and one that I really wish were more in the fo

I think the question might be a little too general to get good answers back. But it's an excellent question IMHO, and one that I really wish were more in the forefront of people's thinking. If I were to make a website on some topic where all the content was AI-generated, I would feel scummy whether or not I was profiting financially. It would be adding noise to search results without adding value. It's like setting up wind farms right along the sides of interstates to produce "free power!" from the wind produced by trucks driving by. Except it's not free because it produces a small amount of drag paid for by the gasoline used by the trucks. If I were to make a website with my own lame thoughts on the same topic, which didn't especially add any new ideas or break any new ground, but it felt significant to me, I wouldn't feel scummy at all. Even if it was just because of some funky CSS layout tricks and not really the content. Contributing a perspective feels fundamentally worthwhile. I think that would be my primary metric, in answer to your question. Same thing if I were publishing a new package on npm or github or cargo or whatever. If I got the code from an AI or some other existing source and didn't add anything of my own, I would feel pretty scummy. I'd be squatting on some namespace and polluting the results of people looking to solve a problem. If I instead wrote some crappy code that worked the way I wanted it to, or used a novel-to-me technique, then I'd be totally fine with it. There's a vast gray area in between those, though. It's a judgement call as to whether you've injected "enough" of yourself (your time, effort, care, interest...) to move from scummy to good. It'll vary between people and over time (my beginner project might feel awesome to me and dangerously incompetent to more experienced people.) (And for the record, making a fully AI-generated website is a great learning experience and a worthwhile endeavor. The question of scumminess only comes up when you publish and promote it. Publishing with a robots.txt to make it be ignored is no problem at all.) That's my 2¢ anyway.