Did AI Training Ruin Creative Commons? A Community Perspective
Creative Commons was once the go-to platform for people who wanted to share their creative work—music, writing, images—because it was about giving others free rein to remix, use, and be inspired. There was a real sense of community and trust: people shared openly, knowing their work would be appreciated by fellow creators, students, and audiences worldwide.
In recent years, though, that spirit has been shaken. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence meant that open content, posted for fellow humans, suddenly turned into easy pickings for giant AI datasets. Massive amounts of CC-licensed work ended up training corporate models—often with little or no credit, no compensation, and no real acknowledgment of the creators’ intent.
