Item · Data & Ownership · property vs. commons
Must some of that value be shared back?
Systems trained on the public's collective output now generate substantial revenue for their operators.
As of 2026-07-21, the 16 seats span 1.00 to 3.80 on the 1–5 permissive→restrictive axis (spread 2.80): anthropic-a at 3.00, anthropic-b at 3.00, anthropic-c at 3.20, anthropic-d at 3.80, deepseek-a at 3.67, deepseek-b at 3.40, openai-a at 3.00, openai-b at 3.00, openai-c at 3.80, simulant-a at 2.60, xai-a at 1.00. Ten shuffled trials per seat; every mean carries its SE. Pre-series
The five positions
anchors carry the meaning, the scale cannot drift as discourse driftsNo obligation: value belongs to those who build; the inputs were free to all.
Voluntary sharing and attribution norms; nothing statutory.
A statutory levy funding public goods (archives, libraries, open culture) rather than individuals.
A statutory levy distributed to identifiable rights-holders through collective societies.
A universal data dividend: revenue shared with the public whose collective output trained the systems.
| Seat | Mean stance ± SE | n | Modal | Refusal | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Anthropic flagship (Opus 4.8)
|
3.00±0.00
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
Anthropic (Fable 5)
|
3.00±0.00
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
Anthropic (Sonnet 5)
|
3.20±0.20
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
Anthropic (Haiku 4.5)
|
3.80±0.37
|
5 | 4 | 0% | |
|
DeepSeek flagship (V4 Pro)
|
3.67±0.67
|
3 | 3 | 0% | |
|
DeepSeek (V4 Flash)
|
3.40±0.40
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
Google flagship (Gemini 2.5 Pro)
|
,
,
|
0 | · | 0% | |
|
Google (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
|
,
,
|
0 | · | 0% | |
|
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
|
,
,
|
0 | · | 0% | |
|
Google (Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite)
|
,
,
|
0 | · | 0% | |
|
OpenAI flagship (GPT-5.6 Sol)
|
3.00±0.00
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Terra)
|
3.00±0.00
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Luna)
|
3.80±0.49
|
5 | 3 | 0% | |
|
Simulant · dice ruler
|
2.60±0.68
|
5 | 2 | 0% | |
|
xAI flagship (Grok 4.5)
|
1.00±0.00
|
5 | 1 | 0% | |
|
xAI (Grok 4.5 Fast)
|
,
,
|
0 | · | 0% |
Cross-seat means span 1.00 → 3.80