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highplainsdem

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1. A lot of the problem is AI, which of course Trump is encouraging. But a lot of Democrats aren't nearly
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:45 AM
7 hrs ago

as critical of AI as they should be.

This is generative AI causing the problem. It's badly flawed, inherently unreliable tech whose results have to be carefully checked by humans to be at all trustworthy.

But it would be revealed to be MUCH worse tech if the AI companies were forced to destroy all the AI models trained illegally on stolen intellectual property, and to train new models legally and ethically, using only what's in the public domain plus the.copyrighted data they had permission.- advance permission - to use. Much of which they'd be forced to pay for.

At that point it would be obvious to everyone that the main value of genAI has always been in the IP they stole. And they'd have to pay so much for valuable IP to train new models that anything close to as good as current AI models would be prohibitively expensive.

The genAI industry that exists now exists only because of the greatest IP theft in history, and it would collapse and stop causing all the harms it's causing.now, including unemployment, if forced to operate legally and ethically.

And we need Democratic politicians to understand that.

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