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Users are here because they want to, they chose to participate in this community. You can stop using HN at any minute and Ycombinator will not chase you.

But AI companies on the other hand took the internet hostage. They stole any creative work, code, art, and literally any data they could their hands on with no regard to license or consent from users. No one actively opted-in to let AI companies have their personal data, they just silently grapped everything they could. Maybe there's some obscure website where you shared something private and lost access to the account or the website even went down? Congrats, it's now revived in OpenAI dataset where you've absolutely no control or details about how it's being used, not even a way to request and pursue legal action because the training data is a "secret".

It's not about compensation, it's that fact you have no option or say even if you don't use their services.

You can't escape or opt-out, unless you go off the grid, and even then they still retain your old data and use it as they see fit.