"Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine criticised OpenAI and Anthropic’s treatment of online writing as undermining consent, fair exchange, and reciprocity between creators and AI companies."
In this Big Technology Podcast conversation, Stubblebine criticises AI companies, explicitly naming OpenAI and Anthropic, for extracting value from online writing without offering an equitable exchange to the people who created it. My interpretation is that this extractive relationship reflects a form of moral nihilism - treating human knowledge and creative labour as freely harvestable raw material while disregarding consent, authorship, and reciprocity. This philosophical diagnosis is mine, while Stubblebine supplies the concrete criticism of the companies' behaviour.