This is getting downvoted, but if we broaden the “theft” bit to mean the use of any unpriced externality, this rings true. After all, while companies didn’t ha

This is getting downvoted, but if we broaden the “theft” bit to mean the use of any unpriced externality, this rings true. After all, while companies didn’t have to pay to pollute the environment, humanity has to eventually suffer; and in the same way the current crop of generative has people’s their work assimilated into models that results in profits for AI companies while the author of the content is denied their fraction of the economic value generated from this process, as well as any recognition and other second order effects they may have benefited from.