LLM Extractivism and the Politics of the Knowledge Commons

Article published in Bot Populi addressing the epistemic and institutional governance challenges posed by LLMs beyond copyright reform. Sharing insights from the roundtable, ‘Cultural Rights, Innovation, and Development in the AI moment - Towards a public domain framing’. Rohini Lakshané weighs in on what she considers the greatest challenge for cultural rights and development justice in the scramble for training data. Examining the political economy through which knowledge, culture, and value live within AI systems, she argues for treating shared knowledge resources as infrastructure to be stewarded collectively rather than extracted for private gain. Originally published at: https://botpopuli.net/llm-extractivism-and-the-politics-of-the-knowledge-commons/