Weird to turn this into a left/right "thing" based on flimsy assumptions after an election that demonstrated opposition to AI cuts across the political spectrum despite what e/acc types in a bubble on X might believe.

I'm on the left and I am not an accelerationist. I think the intellectual property theft justification is a bad one for opposing AI and a surprising one to hear from corners of the internet I inhabit. All of my objections would apply equally to an AI trained from permissibly licensed material.

> the self-described 'left' is not going to convince me that corporate IP & knowledge restriction is actually a good thing

It just goes to show how fluid people's beliefs can be when they have identified a "bad guy". Everything they do is wrong, even when it aligns with their ethos.

The so called progressives have actually been the ones opposed to progress throughout history. If they had their way we would all be frozen in time, entitled to our 1960s education & career

> not going to convince me that corporate IP & knowledge restriction is actually a good thing and elsevier are the good guys.

multiple parties can be opposed to each other's goals with all of them still being the "bad guys".