Mastodawn

First they came for the illustrators.... Molly Crabapple on the greatest heist of intellectual property in history: big tech & its AI & related technologies are organised thieves robbing creatives of their livelihoods & property.

What has been happening in the creative industries is not a bug but a feature of how AI will dehumanise society & work, leaving us just playthings for the big tech billionaires.

To say Molly is (rightly) angry is an understatement!

#AI

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/12/is-ai-the-greatest-art-heist-in-history

Is AI the greatest art heist in history?

New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

The Guardian

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eestileib (she/hers)17h ago

@ChrisMayLA6

Read about the Enclosures in the UK.

Rich people stealing the collective angloforming labor of centuries of commoners for themselves and creating the urban laboring poor.

Same shit going on right here. It feels like there are more class traitors today though.

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Paul Schoe 4h ago

Couldn't have said it better. By not paying for the resources they use, the creativity and hard work done by actual people,
'big tech & its AI & related technologies are organised thieves'

What they will leave behind will be a barren landscape without the creativity that propelled societies for millenia.

#AI #LLM #Thieves
@ChrisMayLA6