> The lineage of every LLM of relevance today was the largest theft of intellectual property in human history.

I can't say how strongly and completely I think this framing should be rejected.

What is the point of knowledge if not to learn from.

> Physical works are being enthusiastically destroyed

This makes me sad.

> I'm sympathetic to the idea that knowledge should be free but that isn't possible when bad actors like Google and OpenAI are preying on the commons.

Google and OpenAI are expanding access to the commons like nothing before.

No, they are locking it behind their corporate walls. Sure, right now they are offering some of it for "free" (give us all your data) or "cheap" (give us all your data and pay some money too) but what happens when all other options are unavailable or difficult to access for most people? Suddenly it is the corporations that decide what is available, for how much, and what is right and what is wrong. They have shown time and again they will bait and switch at will, this is the ultimate run on everything - turn everyone who can think for themselves into zombies and then force them to use technology for everything and charge for it either directly or via endless adds or some mix of the two.

Trying to centralize all information and "intelligence" in one or two providers, charge for "intelligence" "like a utility", and divest citizens of their own skills and recourse to resources is not "expanding access to the commons" lol.