Yes. They stole everything and are diverting markets to their newly acquired storehouses. Many many many markets. All AI companies are criminal operations. If you’ve built a body of work and had it scooped up by a billionaire to have it output simply by referencing your name… its easy to see this point. Of course the non-creator’s voice, who has no work absorbed by these corporations, will be the loudest to defend AI.

I think its kinda dumb to relate irl to games, but any good civ leader knows you decommission your coal, oil, and nuclear facilities as soon as you get solar and wind tech. Lest the oceans rise and ruin coastal economies. But I just play games, I don’t lead the free world.

Technofascism at work.