Public knowledge repositories such as #Wikipedia are commons built by volunteer labor, donations, and public-interest go...

Public knowledge repositories such as #Wikipedia are commons built by volunteer labor, donations, and public-interest governance. LLMs extract value from them, but that value rarely flows back to sustain the commons.#Copyright reform alone cannot solve this. AI firms can invoke intellectual property to protect their own datasets, architectures, and optimization methods as trade secrets, limiting public-interest audits and alternative model-building. (4/n)#KnowledgeCommons #LLM #AI