Microsoft says it's okay to steal content published on the web | Windows Central: "With respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 90s has been that it is fair use. Anyone can copy it, recreate with it, reproduce with it. That has been freeware, if you like. That's been the understanding," said Suleyman. Many creators do not agree with this take.
Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder - by Dave Karpf: Aaron was, in a sense, my generation's equivalent of Woz. It isn't a perfect analogy. But as archtypes go, it fits well enough. They don't even try to produce Aarons anymore. Everyone is trying to be Sam frickin' Altman now. [...] A small, cloistered elite of not-especially-bright billionaires have decided that they are very, very special, and that the problem with society these days is that people keep treating them like everyone else.