It’s like with people who are stuck in traffic. They are frustrated and so they wish for for change. The wish for more roads (and bigger cars, faster cars, more cars). The natural human reaction when something doesn’t work is: Try the same thing harder! It’s not to try something else.

I think we have all been in situations where we failed to push a door open, and so we angrily pushed again harder before easily pulling the door open.

I see lots of people agreeing that there is a problem, as evidenced by the popularity of the term “enshittification”. But the reaction is to double down on the policies that got us here.

You can see that in AI threads here. People call for more intellectual property, more silo-ing of data. Of course, that won’t work and Doctorow has explained that on several occasions. pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullie… …medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-05-13-spoo…

Other institutions that are apparently considered trustworthy also “side with AI companies”, in that they understand that fair use is in the interest of society. For example, libraries including the Internet Archive. librarycopyrightalliance.org/…/AI-principles.pdf blog.archive.org/…/internet-archive-submits-comme…