Miguel Afonso Caetano 🦾 🌹 on Nostr: That's totally the wrong discussion. It's a total dead-end. The whole concept of ...

That's totally the wrong discussion. It's a total dead-end. The whole concept of Intellectual property is bollocks. There can be no theft of public goods - goods whose consumption doesn't deprive others of doing the same (rivality) and whose consumption by others cannot be denied (excludability). Intellectual property relies on the concept of artifical scarcity enforced by the State.

There can be no good in making use of that concept or of the tools provided by IP Law. IP Law's is the Rentier's Law.

These companies care a lot about intellectual property. If they didn't care, they would open-source their whole code, training prompts, and algorithms. That - and only that - is what we should be aiming for at this time. Any other topic will be a distraction advanced by competing capitalists.

I'm not even willing to go into the whole issue of labour theft. That would be a completely different discussion since what capitalism has been all about throughout history is labour theft.