Comment by UltraSane

16 hours ago

Whatever happened to the mantra "Information wants to be free"

Market fundamentalism is what happened.

Information wants to be ? How naive.

Information wants to be commoditized, but that process is amoral unless I am getting a cut as a rent seeker.

If I am getting paid then it is just a form of darwinism and to think otherwise is to be anti-science.

If someone else is getting paid then obviously whatever we are talking about is a great injustice.

  • "Information wants to be free, as long as it's not my information."

    • "...and as long it's created by a human."

      (Because I feel proponents of generative AI appear to play the "info wants to be free" card as well.)