"But intellectual property bad and muh pragmatism!"

Firstly: 🤣🤣🤣

Secondly: While Intellectual property isn't necessarily a good thing, its the best thing we can wield against the AI overlords. They don't want to democratize art, they want to destroy it. That's what actual pragmatism is. Also anti-IP movements hurt not big corporations, but small independent creators and developers. That disabled artist friend of yours that is now "mean" at you "for no good reason" is getting called a millionaire no matter how much they have to beg for rent money at the end of the month, while parents are continuing to look for Disney and Harry Potter slop instead of letting their kids experience art made by smaller creators. Similarly Microsoft can sustain you pirating Windows if that means Windows will remain a de-facto standard, but open source projects are also being attacked sometimes for "clinging onto evil copyright laws" or for "e-begging".

Thirdly: Speaking of pragmatic use of AI: Why don't you use some Chinese models to hack the fash into oblivion? Why is it always some crappy AI generated agitprop, or AI slop articles talking about how AI could be used for fully automated luxury gay space communism? Taking down communication channels used by them would be a lot more pragmatic, than slowly hurting your fellow comrades just to get some clout from other comrades of yours in the name of "pragmatism"!

Stop cooking your brain, just because techbros managed to control the narrative about anti-AI extremism. I personally know people, who would happily sacrifice a portion of the population if it means the genie will be put back quicker into the bottle, that's what real anti-AI extremism is. Extremism isn't being mean to an artist on social media, because they drew hands weirdly, or they used that "glowy"-style rendering. This is just "the real racists are anti-racists" tactic yet again, expect this time you fell for it.

When you are equating something that Linus Torvalds supports with fascism, I think you might have lost the plot.