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I don’t want my mind polluted by content derived from people who want the power to restrict what i do with that art

FWIW I don’t want my mind actively polluted by the media and materials derived by people who consider art “content” and all human output “training data” to support their own misguided gambles in the hopes of saving their personal portfolios from self-imposed disaster. And yet here we are. So. I hear you.

The point is, people shouldn't have the right to shove something in front of you that might inspire you to iterate, remix, or derive from that, while penalizing you if you act on those ideas. Intellectual property is mind-policing. Its success hinges entirely on it being allowed to invade public space without the public's consent, while using the state to forbid its own free distribution by the public.

No one can opt-out of copyrighted content, and if they could, copyrighted works would become the slim minority of all content, or cease to exist entirely.

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