scargrillo

Contrarian perspective on AI dystopia and domination

This breakdown hits hard because it’s not just about business models — it’s about trust.

Open source succeeded because it created shared public infrastructure. But hyperscalers turned it into extraction infrastructure: mine the code, skip the stewardship.

The result? We’ve confused “open” with “free-for-the-powerful.”

It’s time to stop pretending licenses are enough. This is about incentives, governance, and resilience. The next generation of “open” has to bake in counterpower — or it’s just a feeding trough for monopolies.