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I think the scummy feelings might come from knowing that the tools you are using were trained on the work of other people without getting permission, offering compensation, or even providing acknowledgement.

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> the tools you are using were trained on the work of other people without getting permission, offering compensation, or even providing acknowledgement

I find that viewpoint rather myopic. Once information is generally available, it's unreasonable to expect that you can retain control of how that information is used.

Much of my stuff is freely available online under a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" license; the "freely available online" part doesn't give you either the legal or moral right to to ignore the "attribution", "noncommercial" or "share alike" parts.

At the same time, it's rather myopic to disrupt what reciprocal incentives there might be in an information sharing environment and somehow expect that the sharing will continue indefinitely.

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