Doctorow: IP can't save workers from AI

Doctorow calls expanding copyright against AI training a 'losing strategy,' warning of 'enormous collateral damage' to beneficial activities from the OED to search engines and the Internet Archive. He says capital markets are 'putting trillions into AI' betting on replacing workers, and argues labor and privacy rights — not property rights — are the real protection.
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