The rage is justified, but it's also misdirected

Theft. That's the (accurate) way AI detractors frame the corrupt buildout of so-called "AI" training data.It's not just theft, though. As we covered a few weeks ago here on The Review, AI-adjacent companies are committing cultural genocide by destroying rare, precious books in the pursuit of more data to train Large Language Models on.The problem is, this isn't anything "AI" is asking for. No matter how the ketamine-fueled CEOs or their overpaid marketing stooges frame it, AI is not agentic. AI can't make these kinds of decisions. Not really.AI is not scraping the open web to rob creatives of their livelihood.AI is not violating the spirit of free and open source software licenses to wring every last cent of value from the free labor of talented developers.AI is not colonizing sleepy communities by building datacenters, poisoning their population, and unhousing families.AI is not hyper-accelerating inflation.AI is not subjugating us all with trillions of dollars of toxic securities…