By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026* Media companies say they have the answer to the AI art question: they'll create (or assert) a copyright that lets them control AI training. 18/ 1141
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026This is an incredibly transparent ruse: media companies are artists' class enemies, and if we get a new right to control AI training, our bosses will demand that we sign it away to them as part of their non-negotiable, one-sided standard contracts: pluralistic.net/2024/11/18/r... 19/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1186
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/05/2026* For creative workers, the answer to these new would-be tech bosses isn't asserting a new right that will be expropriated by the old media bosses who've been ripping us off forever. 20/ 1132
