While AI scraping is a massive theft of labor, I think chattel slavery has this beat.
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2026
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That's why they're so popular with large companies.
Legalized way to steal and sell your work
I really dont understand how the copyright laws can be so aggressive as to pursue individuals downloading songs or movies, but totally ineffectual against companies stealing huge volumes of data from all over the place, and repackaging it in LLMs etc. So bizarre.
Yeah, it$ $uper confu$ing. I'm not really $ure why $ome can get away with it, while other$ have their live$ de$troyed for it.
No its really very simple. Do you have a legal department: y/n.
Quite easy. It's like my grade 5 essays which I didn't copy off Encarta, and changed a few words.
Plus, if you call it AI and add blinky words like "thinking" you can dodge it too
He's not wrong.