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IP as a concept has always been equal parts dystopian and farcical, and efforts to enforce it have become increasingly strained over time. Property requires scarcity. Ideas aren’t scarce. My consumption of an idea is affected by your consumption of an idea.

AI has simply increased the intensity of this friction between IP and reality to a degree that it can’t be ignored or patched over any longer.



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