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"Oh no did that 'Allow us to train on your org's data' toggle get turned on after the last update? We're so sorry. No we won;t delete the data, the toggle was -ON- what part of that don't you get??

FUD.

Who is this we?

Your comment illustrates that AI companies are playing a kind of shell game. On the one hand there is theft of IP and violations of copyright, in the middle there is the obscuring of where things come from, and on the other hand there is the selling of it via tokens.

More countries should debatably follow what Japan is doing[1], where they are creating new laws to force AI companies to show their training data and how they collected it.

[1]: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/19/japan/ai-traini...

Your text may well have been in the training corpus, but not searchable with whatever terms and search engine that LLM used after you prompted it. It doesn’t have recall of sources of documents comprising its training corpus, unless the source is widely cited in other of its training documents. Sourcing and provenance aren’t currently an intentional part of LLM training.

That may already have been obvious, and central to the complaint, but I was just knee-jerking to the anthropomorphic language.

France, 1658 <-> World, 2026. AI can also do the reverse : for example very few in the world know that the term midwit was originally coined in french by Blaise Pascal (« demi habiles ») centuries ago.

Yes, that bell curve meme, he wrote about it. It’s not explained anywhere because of the language and culture separation between french and english. But if you ask enough questions to AI, the AI will eventually find about Blaise Pascal and tell you about this unknown link. It’s magic.

Well done Confucius, you've invented a new creditpocalypse. Its when llms hallucinate new authors for new words. It almost makes it worth starting a blogsurection!

> I do not believe any of the gains are worth this.

You are authoring original work.. the Baron in the Castle collected your work and uses it. Who becomes wealthy and how?

He is correct, but why make the statement ? My guess, Microsoft is failing on their AI push.

It's a memo taken out of context from Jan 2023, literally 1 month after the ChatGPT public release. All the article cites:

> The brief cited an internal memo dated January 2023 by Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht, where he allegedly said, “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and also called it “the largest theft of labor in human history.”

No need to add religion into this. Let MS employees write their emails. If anything, what he said a month after ChatGPT's release was prophetic.

For all human history, the subject only complains if they do it, its never wrong when others do it, never when they do it.

Take the Hebrew return to the promise land, its strange how the non believers are always rich and their gold, cattle and virgin numbers are listed as gifts for doing gods will.

What is meant by "beam" in this quotation? A splinter of wood?

By stealing text from the Bible rather than using your own words, you've just committed labor theft!

Of course that accusation sounds outrageous as it should. All human knowledge and progress has come by building on the works of those who came before us, as it should. Turning this on its head and calling it "theft of labor" is insane, as is asking others not to build on today's knowledge.

Or to steal some more human labor: "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

This.

And slavery is probably what inspires the perm under class fantasy AI people have. That’s said, if they work hard enough, AI being bigger than slavery is still possible.

> So it's not really the labor that's being stolen, but the future value of the deliverable.

the choice was stolen as well.

the agency was stolen as well.

This is not how authors rights work

A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour.