The conversation is quickly devolving into a vacuum of ignorance where things like royalties, fair use policies, revenue-sharing agreements, parodies, sampling, etc, have apparently never been thought about.

We're not talking about any of those things. We're talking about wholesale digestion of the entirety of human knowledge by automated means, which is now not just theoretically possible, but routine.

Those aren't meme formats in terms of what is typically meant by meme.