The thing about copyright maximalists is that they always want *more* copyright. Existing copyright isn’t enough. Nothing is enough. Any recognition of the commons, any transformation of existing work is offensive to them. Free society itself is offensive to them. You cannot please them.
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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