What Anil Dash thinks about open source
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Anil Dash has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsthe incredibly positive and generous intent of these open licenses has since been exploited by extractive Big AI companies, who ransacked all of the images on Flickr that had permissive licenses without any consent from, or compensation to, the creators.
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Their wordsThe Big AI companies that take content without consent, or who refuse to let people see their code, or who insist they can't give people control over how their models run and whether they are responsible about their environmental impact can now be definitively refuted.