[GeoAtreides]

Some AI companies have jobs where human coders solve algo problems for model training.

Why not apply directly to those jobs and doing it for free? That would maximize your usefulness to others, would it not?

I'm actually asking, that's not a rhetoric question.

[RealityVoid]

It would not, actually, maximize my usefulness to others. They way you do it is making your work maximally available and exapndable so others can build on it. The end result is greater than the sum of its parts. So... open source.

My point is that I don't see a reason why someone making money off my work that I donate should bother me. But again, this is MY stance, clearly it's not an universal outlook. What I wanted to challenge was underlying assumption that someone making money off your code and not giving you any back is a problem or that is _should_ be a problem. It might bother some, but it's not an universal assumption.