thagb

The AGPL instills fear into SAAS corporations. A no-ai-training clause could be added.

But the FSF has been behind the curve with SAAS and is now with AI. If they did care about freedom at any cost, the AGPL would have been the default GPLv3.

What are the numbers? How much energy goes into extracting rare earth materials, recycling batteries etc.? How is the electricity generated? How much is lost in transit and battery efficiency? What do the servers use that the Tesla communicates with behind the owner's back?

These are real questions. I find it hard to get a comprehensive and unbiased analysis.

A photocopier provides "vastly greater value" than the people who wrote the books?

> they can't extract rent now that their past work became valuable for reasons they had no part in.

That is not the case at all. If I donate food to Africa, I'm happy if it goes to humans. I'm not happy if a Mafia organization steals the food in transit, repackages it and sells it.

This is completely different: With an automobile (back then) you still needed ad driver.

This replaces the most human occupation of all: thinking. So young people go ahead and steal the whole open source corpus that they did not write. And are smug about it.

If your projections of progress are true, at least 90% of the people here who praise the code laundering machines will be made redundant.