Silicon Valley Grift Operation : Value Extraction Model Part Three
The end of the copyright law the final frontier.
Mans last protected stronghold… His own mind. Isaac Asimov Second Foundation
I have been stating for five plus years that Google and its DARPA Silly - Con - Valley cohorts have been priming this systemic calculated strategic assault upon the copyright system! The copyright system is the bedrock of the creative artistic system that allows artists/authors to monetize their work/sweat and toil. It can allow generational wealth. It is also known as the retirement money for the music artist/songwriter…. aka THE PENSION PLAN.
The copyright system in the United States was launched May 31st, 1790! This system has been working for 235 plus years and is being taken down by the Silicon Valley’s Digerati in ‘cohoots’ with the quote unquote legislative lawmakers! The copyright has been under systemic assault for decades now! When Napster happened we saw the beginning of the end, yet we didn’t know what we were looking at then and apparently now. I am labeling this ‘scripted destruction’. Inch by inch!
A.I represents the final shift from a ‘VALUE INSERTION MODEL’ TO A VALUE EXTRACTION MODEL’. That point is what I wish you to take from this column! The copyright erosion was the basis of You Tube being able to sell itself to Google in 2006 1.65 billion. It was the essence of Facebook becoming what we have now and the essence of social media expansion in the 2000’s! The Copyright represents the old system of artistry that has essentially been replaced by what is now called content creativity!
With now Deep Seek dropping it’s V3 model and Nvidia dropping its 3000 dollar super computer our future is now etched in stone for all intents and purposes. What some call ‘THE GREAT RESET’ can be truly activated!! The ‘Quantum Epoch’ of cheap synthetic commoditization is now here! Machines training machines will be the way of the world! Bots talking to bots! SYNTHETIC AKA ‘ARTIFICIAL MEDIA TAKEOVER’ is now official without the referee’s whistle!
The human will become the supporting actor not the star! The human will not be number one on the call sheet in Hollywood speak! Automation of all types will scale quickly as specialized speed and cheap have arrived as the backbone of this new updated system. Musk at the DOGE Department has just given a display of how violent and brutally fast this can impact a system.
All of what you have witnessed is massive copyright violations over three decades while being called innovation!! I came into the music game officially in 1999 when I founded a independent record label. I started the same year as Napster which is quite symbolic for myself on a personal level. I have rode the whole train ride. Now we are throwing Deep Seek into the pot will only hasten copyright abuse and spread the disrespect of the old system. The transition will not be smooth.
Open A.I is complaining about Deepseek scraping the internet without permission, yet open A.I does the same thing! It is the way of Silicon Valley! I just laugh and shake my head at a Sam Altman. I say from one criminal to the next, to see him complain about Open A.I is like Al Capone complaining about Lucky Luciano! THE INNOVATION IS FRAUD AND THEFT. I have been stating this in public via my published books and feel like a broken record. With that said copyright ownership is in a true quagmire! These companies feel that the material which then becomes data is now their own. The copyright system has continually gotten in the way of what they call progress. Open A.I just displayed this also.
My assessment the human masses by a ‘procrastionary’ behavior are always late to the game because of their programming. Now we fast track ourselves into this ‘A.I commoditized epoch’ it is to late to turn back now. The die has been cast! The masses pre occupied by their addictions to various conveniences that have expanded the global narcissistic levels which provides a permanent fuel dump.
Now with Suno and Udio being indoctrinated into the system will fool people into thinking they are in the music business. Due to this WE MUST DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE TWO! A.I musical output is generated, while human music is produced! Let’s define the two to see the differences which shall be critical for everyday folks to understand:
Generation - performing specified mathematical or logical operations on an initial set.
Produce - Make or manufacture from components or raw material.
I am stating here this output will be bankrupt of feeling and emotion. This however, follows the transhumanist way of being in a post human social construct. Now we as a society have created a flood of ‘musical output’ that is based on the theft of copy righted music that the Big A.I companies claim as their own. For me this puts ownership in a quagmire in my assessment!
With machines positioned to communicate with each other who or what will own this material? For me that is the master key to it all! The internet will be flooded with ‘SYNTHETIC MEDIA’ with very little ownership! Now the big question is who or what benefits from this pending set up? I will state here that Silicon Valley aka SIlly - Con - Valley is about using ‘tricknology’ of the various utopians it always brings out to the growing unknowing public. I view the public masses as cannon fodder! THE MACHINES ARE FEEDING (I DO NOT SAY TRAINING) on stolen criminal activities that the political system has consistently decided to look the other way about. So going to the politicians is a waste of time! The politicians track record of over three decades speak for itself.
The music(artistic) human profession must take a much more bombastic stance! We are losing out! Our future is being lost to those criminals of ‘Silly - Con - Valley’! They do not respect or like the human being which is so obvious by their actions. These people will not assist and do the right thing! It is not in the DNA of Silicon Valley. They will continue this ‘big steal’ while calling it now National Security and innovation! With three successful decades of theft and fraud why would they decide to stop? It is the basis of what they have called innovation!
Now with A.I agents now in play which allow machines expediently to communicate with machines places the human outside the process! This sets up the quantum computer structure which is the end game. Once the quantum is here wide spread it will be to late to turn back time. In my assessment the key players in the music industry have decided to ride with Silicon Valley and have sold music down the road! This is not about money…. this is about control, compliance of the new systems being activated. As of now the voice of truly independent artists have not been acknowledged! This why the breaking of new career/franchise artists has been non existent! This is a subject no one wishes to discuss. That is just not a subject!
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If you look at the music business you will see greater society in the 2030’s! Society will be hollowed out!! The concept of ownership is truly at risk in the digital space. It is being ripped from underneath us under the guise of innovation/conveniences and now national security!
I view this time right now as one of a sense of urgency! These ‘HU-BOTS/ALIENS in Silicon valley utilize ‘S.I.F’ as a battering ram on the public. S.I.F stands for ‘speed/ignorance/fear’ and is the basis of their game plan. The speed overwhelms….ignorance keeps you lost in the storm…. the fear keeps you frozen. All of those things feed their strategy which is to get to the Quantum! Commodifying aka devaluing media is the crux. We have gone from media to content!
In greater society the masses have been now ingrained in the ‘Binary Thought Apparatus’ over the past three decades. Many think in the ‘either or format’! It is time to become an actor or reactor! It is time to take the offensive and stop living a defensive life construct! We must set the tone instead of the tone being set for us. Silly - Con - Valley thrives on the public complacency…. It all thrives on disjointed, fearful and frozen humans.
We are in what I am labeling this ‘Expansive Layer Cake’ where speed takes out the concept of security. The Digerati has taken concepts out of this system that is forming before our eyes! Time is of the essence! We are on the clock no different than the NFL Draft. Time is not in our favor because we are in this sitting back reacting strategy. This is not an intellectual pursuit! This is a fight against sanctioned existential criminality that public can’t conceive or imagine apparently. The average Joe or Josephine still feels the system is here to see them thrive and protect them. However, our elected officials are not doing so.
The various lobbyists by Silicon Valley’s Digerati control many aspects of our government officials! For me this say’s that the solution will have to come from outside the system. It must come from the people itself! That is what is not being obviously not being imagined by the public and by smart people currently in the fight. Folks are not realizing they fight in the box not outside of the box! A whole different mindset is going to be needed because as of now we have failed to get our message through. Time to try something else. It is time to break free from this outdated system and thought stream that is obviously not providing dynamic solutions.
The Verge publication announced on 3/18/25 that hundreds of celebrities warn against OpenAI and Google freely exploit Hollywood. Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Aubrey Plaza, and others call out the two companies that want an exemption to train A.I on copyrighted material. I just shook my head. These people have done the crime now wish to say oh by the way, The rewriting of established law in favor of so called ‘fair use’ was in need of an initial response. I keep saying the Digerati have no shame! They do not care or respect! They just wish to monopolize everything and leave nothing for others. The digital system is built to strangle. Unless you are feeding it there will be nothing for you.
Section 230 of the 1934 Communications Act enacted in 1996, protected online platforms from lawsuits related to 'USER GENERATED CONTENT’, including decisions to remove or transmit it. Platforms are immune from most liability for content posted by other users. Now regardless of how you feel about the specific shape of the modern internet, the law has been successful in creating this now trillion dollar industry. It shielded and protected generations of startups from lawsuits. This took out the liability from industry that has created this free for all with what I am labeling now narcissistic mayhem. The same way the covid vaccine makers were protected that person could not sue directly. When you take off the liability this allows a industry to flourish.
In a story I found in the publication called ‘The ANKler, The headline shouted ‘TV Writers Found 139,000 if Their Scripts trained A.I. Hell broke loose. In the article a writer is quoted as saying this is organized crime! I have also called this organized crime in past writings of mine.
In March, I saw a article in https://musicbusinessworldwide.com in which Merlin the organization that represents thousands of independent labels that are not multinational corporations. My company is a boutique record label that are similar to those companies. Merlin reps these types of labels that unlicensed use of these artists work creates a genuine and imminent threat to artists livelihoods. Google and OpenAI said that training of A.I models on artists work without permission should somehow be considered ‘fair use’. I found this use of verbiage reprehensible by those companies that have been ripping for decades(Google) and OpenAI for years!
Merlin broke down the legal test for fair use involves four criteria, relating to the purpose and character of the use , the nature of the copyright work, the amount used, and the effect upon the market or value of the copyright work. Unlicensed commercial A.I apparently fail on all four points. Any A.I company that trains its models by scraping the internet for copyright works. Invariably, these copies are used for commercial purposes, and the A.I generated sound recordings resulting from the models pose a significant threat to the market for Merlin artists copyrighted sound recordings by creating directly competitive music files. There is much talk about these uses being fair merely because the outputs are transformative uses need to take into account the impact on the original works, and the extent to which they are substitutional for the original. In case of A.I generated music, the substitutional impact is obvious.
Taking someone else’s creative work - WITHOUT PERMISION, WITHOUT COMPENSATION, AND WITH THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF USING THAT WORKS THAT ARE SUBSTITUTIONAL FOR THE ORIGINAL - IS INHERENTLY NOT FAIR USE. IT IS FEAR USE.
The music of Merlin’s clients use their music to earn a living from their creations! No this is no different to how A.I companies and their investors would assume, look to copyright and other IP law to protect against any unauthorized uses of their technology. A.I companies are rightly protective over their models and proprietary software, yet some seem to view other people’s intellectual property as ‘free data’ to feed their algorithm. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT ALLEGEDLY HAPPENED WHEN OPENAI ACCUSED DEEPSEEK IN CHINA OF DOING NEFARIOUS ACTIVITIES TO BE ABLE TO JUMP AHEAD OF OPENAI WITH THEIR LATEST MODELS.
The big issues the A.I developers do not say what vast datasets were ingested to train their A.I algorithms. I equate ‘Sampling by Hip hop producers that then went onto allow Hip Hop to become this trillion dollar economy. The innovators that went back and used other musical works then legally could contact and spread the wealth for the past three decades. Why can’t the A.I companies pay for the black box material just like they are charging people for their services so they can have a viable business?
_______________________ Open A.I News Update 4/3/25_____________
According to the New York Times Open A.I has garnered 40 billion in new funding to further what is said to be able push the frontiers of A.I research even further, scale the compute infrastructure, and deliver increasingly power tools for users of ChatGPT Generative A.I. With this announcement OpenAI one of the most valuable companies in the world. OpenAI has now been valued at over 300 billion is now worth more than old school multi nationals Chevron, Samsung, Salesforce, McDonald’s, PepsiCo. It is worth almost 3 times amount of Starbucks!
Also, OpenAI has said their LLM can write creatively! Now after all of the copyright theft and scraping of the internet of authors/songwriters/poets work which are creative, had the temerity to state this! Now you will charge people to do this yet you didn’t compensate these people. Now they tout this. Now one speaks up about this behavior. It is still called Innovation!
Here is the grand daddy headline from Quartz October 4th 2024: TIK TOK’S OWNER IS SCRAPING THE WEB 25 TIMES FASTER THAN OPENAI… This is a whole other level being done by Byte Dance in Beijing. This is a global robbery which is beyond the U.S.A’s law enforcement agencies which many folks do not appreciate and understand. The theft and fraud is a trillions of dollars. This is the only innovation left. This is the way to wealth! OpenAI is proving my statement!
_______________Addendum 11/24/25 ___________________________
So I see this article about how the Silly - Con - Valley needing more data, because it has basically scraped the internet and needs more stuff to essentially scrape to train its children. Apparently the LLM’s will need more written text to continue training. Without quote unquote ‘fresh training data’ the Digerati will be thirsting for A.I to continue improvement. Now they will use video games to train A.I! Now what does this mean? Will they do the right thing or will they do criminal activity again? The games apparently teach movement, physics, problem solving, cause and effect, along with spatial reasoning. The side benefit of this is that real world data is expensive and limited, however video games provide infinite simulated scenarios where A.I can safely experiment as it learns. All I can say is here we go again. No respect for the copyright holder. For what it is worth I am going on record and state this is the POST COPYRIGHT ERA! Game set match.
______________12/5/25 Addendum Forecast _____________________
Silly Con Valley is setting up a ‘data calamity’ because of Silly -Con - Valley’s children (A.I) will be demanding more and more feeding. The humans can’t keep up. The synthetic data will be utilized more and more. This means the data will be damaging I will state here now! The data is like empty calories of Kellogg’s Pop Tarts. This will be a problem in the next 4 years when A.I is expected to be foundation of the forward economy. So what gets in the way of getting quality media…. The Copyright. Please comment and share please.
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b. There is absolutely no A.I utilized here. Only H.I aka Human Intuitiveness.
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kind of waiting to read this series together...
I think we can agree that AI intelligence is only a comp. of stolen human intelligence. As you hit here upon here of course is how that theft is a means of making the works of human arts and thoughts less meaningful than its machine comp...and starting around one-hundred fifty years human labor became less meaningful than machine labor..
a parallel might be the story of John Henry..it was not that John Henry's was less efficient, he was beaten because the machine didn't rest.
But the thing is John Henry's work was efficiently and enduringly completed only by means of human labor. The machine required much more energy to do the same task but the results were less enduring products, they broke down, they didn't endure and overall required more energy to accomplish tasks that couldn't stand the test of time as well as the human's effort did.
But that was the benefit to the "grifter"... more could be made even if a lesser quality that required even more to be made and humans were doubly penalized by the grifter...first their labor was deemed less necessary and profits soared as inefficiency required increased purchasing of the same item; prices soared because the inefficient methodology of production required greater abuse and expanded use of resources which both doubled price due to inefficiency and doubled profit due to vertical monopolization of incorporation.
Good efficient human produced crafts remained higher priced but probably not going to break down and thus cheaper but presented as beyond the means to purchase increasing the need for the human craftsman to increase his price even more as his sales plummeted
Enter AI, and we have the same inefficiency;the same overabundance or excess of "supply" that increased demand only because of its inefficient result.
and of course the goal is to diminish human intelligence in the same way human labor was diminished, not because human labor or intelligence is lesser but by making it of lesser importance the controller of the "intelligence" (technological effort) gets more and controls more (inc. resources necessary for others to labor in thought) can make true human thought less attractive by being able to underbid it with substandard intelligence.
Good points. The white light at the end of the tunnel, is that AI generated content reeks and it's flooding the marketplace. But, people are already tired of it - only true creativity shines through. Most likely ... looking into my slighty cloudy crystal ball, AI will end up coordinating a new revenue model. I don't know what they could look like, but something that gives musicians and artists more direct control over the distribution and revenue of their work. AI is a tool (remember: input/output) like Google search is a tool ... it can't go the distance by itslef, only human creativity and innovation can.