If I take something that deprives you of it that is theft because it’s real.

The theft is real and it deprives me of the very real revenue or benefit i asked for in exchange.

You are not entitled to any revenue just from some creative work. That’s a completely fake claim.

You are entitled only to what you created.

Certain people disagree with you. They have more guns than you do, so their opinion is the only one that matters.

It would appear that those guns are now turned against us so they can take our data and work and use it for free. Microsoft and openai are not training their models against their own products. Those are copyrighted.

But what we are told is that _our_ work is not copyrighted and they can just use it and sell it and profit from it. In return we will be “freed” of the burdens of our jobs and ip.

In effect this is reverse piracy.

As I recall, the term for a pirate, operating legally and targeting government sanctioned targets was privateer. So maybe the term we need is privateering?