You Are the Training Data

Here’s the dirty secret of AI: it only looks smart because it swallowed the internet. Every blog, every repo, every rant — scraped, chewed, regurgitated. If you’ve ever posted online, congrats: you’re unpaid labor for a trillion-dollar industry.

And now? They sell it back to you. You write, they steal, they train, and then they charge you a subscription to access your own knowledge — just mashed into autocomplete.

People love the convenience and don’t stop to ask who’s footing the bill. Spoiler: you are. In electricity, in bandwidth, in the slow death of the open web.

The punchline? AI companies cry about “protecting creators” while they built their empires on unconsented scraping. That’s not innovation. That’s theft with better PR.