dlwah likens pretraining to the enclosure movement, hopes for a deliberate posttraining commons
dlwh · x · 2026-10-16
Responding to @NeelRajani's critique that scraped pretraining data was never all commons (citing massive IP theft and uncompensated writers), dlwh calls it a fair criticism: pretraining is in some ways a giant enclosure movement converting knowledge created by millions into proprietary assets. He hopes a posttraining commons can be built deliberately, without repeating that pattern.
Related event: Pretraining as Digital Enclosure: The Missing Post-Training Data Commons(4 posts)→
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