maybe the project table was upside-down and things ended in the wrong way
this post was submitted on 18 May 2025
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You forgot one part in the LTV. When a thing can be created with less labor, all of those things will have less labor value.
If an original gets photocopied 1000x, all of the copies will be worthless, as there was no labor put in. But the copies are indistinguishable from the original, so the original is now also worthless.
Copyright is taking something worthless (copies) and trying to artificially make it worth something, by suppressing people's ability to share.
Now that LLMs exist, making something that could also be made by a LLM has the same labor value as when someone uses a LLM to create it (very little).
Well done for highlighting the LTV the way you did; it is an excellent examination of the defense against proprietorship. (I was deliberating against commenting because it may feel like ganging up on the relative OP here but I felt an upvote was not enough)