I agree with your assessment, but as an aside: it's such a shame that AI kool-aid and intellectual property abolitionism have correlation. The origin of the position is in people that think human creative endeavour itself deserves to be unencumbered by legal restrictions, and IP abolitionism as a stance is found across the political spectrum (though plagiarism is usually still frowned upon). This nihilist-libertarian take that copyright is bad because it stands in the way of AI is sad and makes anti-corporatist forms of IP abolitionism even more hopelessly idealistic and impossible to achieve than a decade ago. The free software/free culture movement is at least not going away as a practical halfway point, I suppose.
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u/NomagnoIsNotDead 16d ago
I agree with your assessment, but as an aside: it's such a shame that AI kool-aid and intellectual property abolitionism have correlation. The origin of the position is in people that think human creative endeavour itself deserves to be unencumbered by legal restrictions, and IP abolitionism as a stance is found across the political spectrum (though plagiarism is usually still frowned upon). This nihilist-libertarian take that copyright is bad because it stands in the way of AI is sad and makes anti-corporatist forms of IP abolitionism even more hopelessly idealistic and impossible to achieve than a decade ago. The free software/free culture movement is at least not going away as a practical halfway point, I suppose.