[msm_]

> What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something?

Ironic taking into consideration that the current generation of AI are more or less copyright laundering for the big corporations. Github Copilot being an extreme example of using GPL projects to generate "proprietary" closed source code. What happened to ownership and respecting the effort it takes to create something?

[int_19h]

It sounds almost like a rehashing of Locke's labor theory of property wrt ownership of land that's very popular with classical liberals and libertarians. As that goes, land is initially nobody's, but when some person applies labor to improve or develop it somehow, that labor being "mixed in" makes the whole thing the property of the laborer.

Here, instead of common land, what we have is the common content. And they're saying that, by "developing" that content into a model that can do more useful things, the authors of the model are entitled to full private property rights on it.

I really hope that's not where we're going to end up, legally speaking.