Attached: 1 image ps. when they talk about "looting", this is what typically qualifies in disaster zones. People desperate, supplies in a wreck, but property rights > desperation.
If you haven’t already, I would recommend reading the book In Defense of Looting by Vicky Osterweil.
“Looting rejects the legitimacy of ownership rights and property, the moral injunction to work for a living, and the “justice” of law and order. Looting reveals all these for what they are: not natural facts, but social constructs benefiting a few at the expense of the many, upheld by ideology, economy, and state violence.”
@Ashedryden AI is looting intellectual content. Facebook is looting personal data. the problem is that some people loot and then exploit not just the stuff (land, tools, joy), but the people who need it, who discovered it, who made it.
The poor seldom consider what it would look like if the rich did the thing back to them, and how that would further entrench the imbalance of power.
@LainTrain @Ashedryden I genuinely don't know what to do with responses that don't make sense because they don't refer to what I said.
I mean "content" and I mean what's generated by artists.
I'm not referencing classes at all, workers, bourgeoisie, or otherwise.
I'm not convinced anyone deserves anything, and neither one of us is the deity who's positioned to define that.
@janisf @Ashedryden idk, I only responded because it's your reply that made no sense to me, I think people deserve basic necessities when we have a society of such riches that can easily provide it but chooses not to, because the rich exploit labour, they earn with ownership of private, including so-called "intellectual property."
The internet is the commons and always has been, ctrl+C, ctrl+V, no one owns anything, that's why it's so liberating. To assert copyright and property culture over something as mundane as some images is beyond absurd. Twitter, mastodon, the whole e-celeb blog culture centered around figures rather than content produced by the people as a whole, anonymously for no purpose other than cultural contributions to their community is the real cancer of it all and I'm quite glad that AI is exposing this charade for what it is.
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