Ukraine: Marxist Bogdan Syrotiuk sentenced to 15 years in prison – a call for solidarity
We publish below a statement of solidarity, written by Ukrainian Marxists, with Bogdan Syrotiuk, a Marxist in southern Ukraine who has been persecuted by the Ukrainian state for putting forward a communist position on the Ukraine War. For this, he has been accused of being a ‘Russian collaborator’, and charged with treason.

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AI is actually driving towards a historically progressive outcome: the abolishment of copyright. AI necessitates enormous amounts of information to improve, and meaningful and modern information cannot be obtained just through public domain, that means that there is a massive incentive in breaking copyright, and that is what's happening.

We can see it with Meta (and other AI companies) using Anna's archive itself.
Although Anna's archive and other archiving projects were mostly voluntary and relied just on a mostly moral necessity, which is to save humanity's knowledge (and also for pirating reasons), now the economy actually has an incentive in keeping this technically-illegal project alive.

About the destruction of books, that is a problem both for us (since for us, most of humanity, those books will risk becoming lost media), but also for other AI competitors. What that means is that those competitors will start favoring archival projects like Anna's archive even more, thus creating a virtuous circle for the archival of human knowledge.

But, in the end, that knowledge is becoming just temporarily inaccessible, but it won't be lost forever. That means that a revolution (expropriation of all the data centers) would be enough to gain access to it again. Contrary to many past lost information, that information won't be lost to history.

In any case, this development under capitalism obviously does not favor the proletariat, which still remains chained to the usual copyright laws. While being unable to act as those data hoarding corporation and circumvent copyright (even for creative purposes), it also does not have the means to protect its own intellectual production, nor to gain from AI data hoarding. This is where the anti-AI ludditism comes from. But that is obviously not the answer.

A centralized, centrally planned (and renewable energy fueled) AI system, after the communist revolution, would not only benefit the entirety of humanity, but it also would be largely beneficial for anyone interested in creating intellectual work to publish (necessarily) in the public domain. Not only it would be regarded based on its usefulness, but any information would be rewarded on the basis of being human information, thus enabling the creation of rewarded art for anything produced, on the basis of it being genuine human information (LLMs need human information and not self-produced slop), ultimately creating an actually emancipated form of intellectual work.

Under capitalism, in fact, intellectual work is sold as if it were a material copy. This, though, is contradictory: the labour is not spent while copying the information, it is spent while creating the information. This is why piracy is such a diffused phenomenon: copying in the digital age does not cost anything, while the digital copy is sold as a physical one.
Computers have, in fact, destroyed the old paradigm of press, for which each copy is created then sold as a physical product, and where its price is determined by the labor spent on both creating the information itself (usually repaid really fast) and on creating the physical copy (largely the cost for the maintenance of press, plus profits) (this discourse could be extended even to the history of other forms of media, like for example videogames).
During the digital age, every single cent goes into repaying the intellectual work of the producers, which should have largely demolished the costs of the product. In a sense they did (e.g streaming services), but the old mode of production is still a fairly used excuse to drive up profits (e.g cost for "buying" one movie).