I'm not completely shocked by the comments on this post, but I'm partially surprised. Seeing it spelled out, the authors do seem pretty pissed about the unfairness of how AI companies trained and what they are doing with that training.
Isn't Medium somewhat similar to AI in this regard as well? Grow paying subscribers from creators' content, even when most of it is readily accessible elsewhere for free. And the top-most comment on the post highlights how opaque Medium's payment model really is
