Maybe we should stop demonizing unauthorized sharing? People like to pretend nobody would make art in the absence of copyright, but it's easy to point them to millenia of contrary evidence.

Those are other alternatives, yes. That and mining the slop with automated tools.

The problem with public domain stuff is that there is more than enough of it, but you cannot access public domain information because monetized slop has superseded it in the search results.

I believe that automated AI engines will eventually help individuals find non-sloppy public domain articles, or assemble them from slop directly.

But piracy is always a good option.