Blanche Minerva pushes back on 'posttraining commons': scraped data wasn't a commons
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-16
Replying to @dlwh's framing of pretraining as an enclosure movement and his hope for a deliberately built posttraining commons, Blanche Minerva argues that's "literally the opposite of a commons": much scraped internet text was never commons, given massive IP infringement where writers were never compensated and suffered earnings losses.
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