This is the sharpest version of the critique, and you’re right on the Lowery point , that’s where the ethics get real.

The line I’d draw: seeding clips to real humans who then choose whether to engage is marketing. Bot-farming streaming plays to collect royalties from a finite pool is theft from other artists. The first is Tuesday. The second is what David Lowery has been warning about for years and it should be prosecuted.

Chaotic Good’s own language , “trend simulation,” “networks of pages” , lives uncomfortably close to that line, and anyone defending the practice has to defend the right version of it. If they’re pushing clips into algorithms where humans ultimately decide, that’s shelf placement. If they’re running bots that auto-play Geese tracks on Spotify, that’s Michael Smith with a better logo.

Writing something longer on this. This comment is prob going in it.