I'm only pointing this out because your comment may read like "don't bother reading Marx to understand these phenomena" for some

I think it's toxic for people to interpret comments as if they have malice, when nowhere in my comment says "don't read Marx". It is rude for anyone on hexbear to assume that a fellow hexbear user would be saying "don't read Marx". Are we on reddit? I thought we were better than that.

My comment only says that during Marx's time, the concept of intellectual property was a very different and simpler thing. Also the communist manifesto is one of Marx's simpler works. Many Marxists even tell people not to bother with reading that specific book because it's not all the interesting. Yes, Marxist concepts apply to modern intellectually property but the way that Marx wrote about intellectual property is very different than concepts that are important to AI.

I would compare AI to the industrial revolution. Marx talks about how new machines during the industrial revolution, new machines allowed workers to produce more commodities with less time needed. New technology allows capitalists to exploit workers more. That doesn't make the technology necessarily bad, it is just used in a bad way. Generative AI is comparable to a factory machine.