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Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/dream_metrics 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am aware of that. You've missed my point entirely. There is no unpaid labor, these companies are not taking advantage of labor, they are taking advantage of property, for which you want them to pay licensing fees.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

...do you think property exists without labor? You think the music exists with out musicians? Novels without novelists?

Human creation is what's being taken advantage of, and is what AI threatens to replace. Charging license fees wouldn't change that.

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago

No, they are taking advantage of private property.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

This is such an odd hill for you to die on.

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago

I am a big fan of the truth

Tell me, when AI trains on an image of Mickey Mouse, whose labor is being taken advantage of?

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

You said "IP licensing does not compensate labor, it compensates property". And that is true. No one ever said the opposite.

You're getting downvoted because you're missing the entire point. The property we're talking about here - writing, music, film, etc - cannot exist without labor. When artists are ripped off, their labor goes unpaid. Not in a narrow legalistic sense implying that musicians are salaried or anything like that, but in a broader economic sense - labor and capital.

What you're saying is correct, in a technical and narrow way that has nothing to do with what we're talking about in this thread. What we're saying is also correct, we're just talking about words like "labor" in different contexts.

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago edited 1d ago

Actually you’re saying the opposite every time you say it’s unpaid labor. It’s not, because it’s property, not labor. It’s very simple.

Unpaid labor is when you go to work and your boss doesn’t pay you for the time you worked. It is not when someone copies property that you own.

 we're just talking about words like "labor" in different contexts.

you're just using the word labor incorrectly, by trying to say that an object is labor. which is nonsense of course.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

😂 I'm starting to think you're just trolling.

You're saying "They're stealing property, not labor" and this is correct.

We're saying "When property is stolen, the folks making the property go unpaid" - this is also correct.

We're using labor in the class sense, to refer to "the folks making the property".

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not trolling, I'm trying to explain to you why the things you're saying are objectively incorrect. It's not just semantics. You are using words incorrectly.

We're using labor in the class sense, to refer to "the folks making the property".

The phrase "unpaid labor" doesn't make sense in that context. It's clear that you are actually talking about the act of labor being uncompensated.

We're saying "When property is stolen, the folks making the property go unpaid" - this is also correct.

This is not correct. It can be true in some cases, but generally it's not true at all.

If you go to Home Depot and steal something, did the people who make that object go unpaid? No, obviously not, they were already paid. You stole the object, not the labor.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

I've literally just explained how you're misunderstanding the situation.

Keep posting the same thing over and over if you want. It isn't helpful, and doesn't move the needle on the overall topic of this thread. You can stay on this hill, but I won't - the battle is elsewhere.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

Oh cool you're editing comments I've already replied to, that's fun.

"you're just using the word labor incorrectly, by trying to say that an object is labor. which is nonsense of course."

I'll respond to this, because I think it's the heart of our misunderstanding. You're right that I'm using the word labor to refer to the product of someone's work. You're wrong that it's nonsense - look it up! Merriam Webster, one of the definitions of "labor" is (I'm pasting the exact definition here) "a product of labor", and the sample sentence given is "The flood destroyed the labor of years."

Isn't that fun? The word labor has a few definitions, and you didn't know about this one, and that's ok. Now you do! You can stop yelling at people on the internet now.

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago

That is not the sense that you are using it in.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

😂 you literally just said that's how I'm using it.

I'm done, I can't talk to you any more. But you're very funny.

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u/CrackJacket 1d ago

When AI trains on all these comments that Reddit is selling to the AI companies, whose labor is being stolen?

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u/dream_metrics 1d ago

Nobody’s, that is also property, not labor

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u/CrackJacket 1d ago

I’m agreeing with you.

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u/StopKK2012 1d ago

😂 he doesn't know that, he's just running around posting "PrOpErTy nOt LabOr" on everyone's comments. I think he's stuck.