> Letting trillion-dollar companies freely grind up the collective creative output of planet earth into digital meat slurry to fuel automatic content-generators

> Letting trillion-dollar companies freely grind up the collective creative output of planet earth into digital meat slurry to fuel automatic content-generators seems like a bad thing. The description is pretty loaded, though. "Grind up" evokes Microsoft taking away the creative output and destroying it forever to create an inferior product. When in fact, the original code is still here, you just also have a smart auto-completion tool built with it. Yes, there are concerns about license laundering and corporations taking advantage of open-source code without contributing to it, but these concerns are a lot more subtle and nuanced than "megacorporations are grinding up the collective output of the planet into slurry". My hot take: piracy everywhere, and screw intellectual property. It does more good for the world if anyone is allowed to build upon what anyone else has done before without having to ask for permission first, even if it makes monetization harder.