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Or people who don't make anything. It's very easy to be generous with other people's work.


Techno communism essentially. "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". And just like that type of economic setup a handful of bros will reap the benefits - in this case sam altman's clique and others like them.


Private companies abusing works shared in good faith for free in order to profit is like communism? I'm sorry, that's just absurd "anything I don't like is communism"-level thinking. These are organizations operating under the incentives of capitalism to achieve the goal of capitalism (and lots of tech enthusiasts trying to come up with post-hoc justifications for the shiny new toy).




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