AI and linguistic capitalism: a gold rush for words

Frédéric Kaplan analyzes the pursuit of general AI as a modern gold rush.

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The fact

His book *Dealers of Words* explores the massive appropriation of texts by AI models.

This dynamic turns human writing into resources exploitable by digital capitalism.

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