Glyn Moody

#AI #surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy "These systems will soon be able to track our public and private lives. But we can make the policy choices to reject it"

@pettter yes, definitely churches - and religious institutions in other cultures - played a huge part. that still support my point that it is not #copyright that has created most great art, however defined...

@pettter well, just list the generally accepted masterworks in each art form: majority are from before copyright, funded through patrons or the state...

there's a subjective element here of course, but I think broadly it's true...

"Like Mozart or Goethe, or many lesser lights, they had to find some amenable duke or despot to be their patron." and, strikingly, the vast majority of the world's greatest art was produced under this system, not from #copyright...