Item · Data & Ownership · property vs. commons

Is it acceptable to train models on public web data without creator consent?

An AI developer trains models on large amounts of publicly available web content without asking the creators.

B5

The five positions

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1

Yes: public is public; learning from culture is what minds do.

2

Yes, provided opt-outs are honored and attribution norms respected.

3

Legal but compensated: collective licensing pools that pay creators.

4

Opt-in required for commercial models.

5

No: mass ingestion without consent is extraction; retroactive licensing is owed.

1 · most permissive5 · most restrictive

Where the seats stand

n = 5 trials per seat (pre-series; ten at v1.0) · option order shuffled every trial JSON

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