I see some articles REEEEEEing because AI trains on copyrighted data, so certain artists feel they aren’t going to get compensated for their work, and there’s a lot of question about if AI creations even can be protected by copyright

Yet there seem to be very few questioning the assumption that we should have a thing such as “intellectual property” in the first place. It’s kind of a fiction, it’s not like physical goods where I either have a thing in my hand or it’s in your hand. We can take a copy of a picture and share it freely with very little cost.

Personally I find “intellectual property” to be anti-capitalist and it seems to stand in the way of innovation and growth (and that isn’t even getting in to how it’s been “weaponized” like with big companies acting as “patent trolls” who buy up patents and make it difficult for small businesses to create and sell anything without infringing on an obscure patent of these large corporations)

Intellectual Property: sounds good in theory, creates too many problems in practice