It’s real but whether you can make a profit or not is dependent on whether you can protect the information. It has been this way since civilization as we know it started, I believe.

If you are freely posting sentences like this was on the internet you are giving away your IP for free. Anyone can read the sentence. If someone can make money off of it then that’s just markets at work. I can’t make money off of what I write here, for example.

But I also don’t think pirating a movie is theft either. You haven’t proven to me you’ve lost money. Maybe wouldn’t have watched it anyway.

Fun topic

> It’s real but whether you can make a profit or not is dependent on whether you can protect the information.

That's what contracts and licenses [0] are for. Or perhaps you're arguing for a world where the only possible protection is that of trade secrets... that once protected information is made public by any means anyone can do anything they wish with it? If you are, then this quote [1] seems relevant:

  If IP is real, then the AI companies have performed flagrant theft.
  
  If IP is not real, then the algorithms and weights the AI companies have developed should also be free as they are just more information.

[1] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754448>