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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

Charles Engelke

@engelke.com

I can understand why public domain only would have skewed the training, but licensing the works would have just made sense. Even licensing a single copy of each ebook would have been a fig leaf they could have used and afforded. They just didn't want to.

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