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Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline
@ingrid
Controversial opinion: they're both wrong
Ah come on now Gerard, you can't go explaining to people that libraries actually pay writers a little bit of money when people borrow their books and the IA were just giving away the stuff.
Then instead of passing around a writer's books they'd have to campaign for UBI so writers wouldn't need to be paid through sales or something which would involve actual work rather than self-justification.
Much easier to "destroy (C)" to the benefit of Disney and OpenAI. Less effort.