Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
The article identifies a real fracture in anti-AI sentiment: while disparate groups—from labor advocates to free speech absolutists to IP protectionists—agree AI training on copyrighted work is problematic, they want incompatible solutions. A leftist pushing for worker protections and a libertarian opposing regulation cannot build the same infrastructure, which means the "open source alternative to big AI" narrative depends on a coalition that dissolves the moment implementation begins. Anti-AI momentum is strongest as pure critique and weakest where it must be concrete.