You already valued your own labor at zero by giving it away for free. How is taking something you give away for free suddenly considered "stealing"?
replyThe same way that Fitzcarraldo stole the labor of the Amazon Indians when they moved the ship over the mountain in order to profit from the rubber.
replyPreviously when I licensed my code with a liberal license I got something back, credit, contributions, connections, job opportunities, etc. The AI companies stole my labor, then they demanded I pay them, and finally they took my job.
Stealing labor itself isn’t actually a thing. Your wages could be stolen, except - what wages? Maybe the output from your labor could be stolen, but not if nothing material was lost. If you can’t point to a specific intellectual property violation, you have no case.
replyDid they steal Wikipedia? Wikipedia is still there.
Stealing my labor means that I do all the work, and they take all the profit.
replyThis would be true even if I signed a contract stating that I give all my labor away for free to my exploiter. You cannot sign away your rights like that, and my exploiter is not allowed to abuse my goodwill this way.
It sounds like you're making a claim to someone else's profits with a very thin rationale for why you had anything to do with it. Basically, claiming something that never was yours and has next to nothing to do with anything you worked on.
replyMy labor was mine. Even the worst capitalist ideologues admit that workers own their own labor and the sell it to their employer for wages.
replyYou are basically arguing in feudalism. My labor belonged to my landlord and they had full right to take all the profit for them selves.