[danaris]

Well, yes. The problem you are identifying is primarily a structural power imbalance.

It is not a structural power imbalance that can be fixed by abolishing copyright. Indeed, abolishing copyright is vastly more likely to hugely increase the power imbalance.

You are looking at the problem too narrowly (identifying it as "a problem with copyright", rather than "a problem with the power structures in our society"; "AI training and compute...in the hands of the few" rather than "most of the money and resources in the hands of the few"), and thus coming to counterproductive conclusions about how we might solve it.

It's very satisfying to imagine taking a big hammer to a system we know to be corrupt and serving those without our interests at heart. But just smashing the system does not build a new one in its place. And until you address the power imbalances, any system built to replace one you smash—assuming you can manage to do the smashing, which is highly suspect—is nearly guaranteed to simply be designed to serve the desires of the powerful even more than the one we have now.

[nonrandomstring]

Some good thoughts, though maybe you underestimate my bead on the world, and perhaps overestimate my desire for "smashing". A more peaceful, and just, time when we simply take their toys away will come. That is certain. A question of "intellectual property" remains. In a post-exploitation world, would we still want or need it? Let's hope we keep living to see how it pans out. Respects.