@knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social public domain is a legal framework. We're talking ethics. Legal does not equal ethical, and some things in the public domain were produced by living people who waived copyright. My point is that consent requires understanding. You can't fully consent to something that doesn't yet exist. If you dedicated something to the public domain in 2002 or worked for the gov, and the work was later used for chatbot training, you didn't truly consent to that. It's still an ethical gray area.