Spent 4 hours to give it a chance, because I'm not one to jump to conclusions. My takeaway is its objectively "ai trash."

Nobody can deny it's full of mediocre ai tools as it's primary gimmick. Lacking any substance.
It also objectively doesnt matter what its trained on, shit tools in the place of better systems and more genuine depth are still shit tools.

It also doesnt change the fact its once again, soulless and bland, ai trash.

What are you trying to prove?

AI trash yet you still spent 4 hours in the game, AI is trained not using copyrighted material so what are you trying to prove here?

I remember when the Sims 4 came out, all bare bones with the ugly empty looking neighborhood screen. People complained about no open world (they still do), no cars, no pools, no toddlers and oh, yeah... they called it soulless, too, because despite being touted as having emotion and trait based personalities for the Sims 4 sims, we only were allowed to have 3 traits (and downgrade from the 5 we could assign in the Sims 3) and no matter what trait you assigned, your sim was pretty much a blank slate that bent to whatever you as the player did with it. It did not matter the trait. I could turn a womanizer like Don Lothario into the worlds best dad by just making him do the same things over and over again. It's only after 10 years, and all the packs and DLCs, all the added new traits, and lifestyles and preferences that Sims 4 sims finally started having depth to their souls.