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You Are Not Your Own Substack

Pillaging of the Digital Commons

How AI companies took everything public (and private) and sold it back to us

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O. Alan Noble
Jul 17, 2026
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We didn’t know what we were doing on Facebook in 2007 when we publicly posted pictures of our dogs, our children, and our vacations and shared opinions about movies and music and politics. But we were actually training an AI model. We didn’t know because nobody told us. I’m sure that technically there was some line…

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