A Manifesto for Fair Compensation and Data Sovereignty I love Artificial Intelligence. As a developer with years of experience building applications, I recognize that AI allows us to do things that were previously impossible. I am not against progress. However, the current model used by tech giants is unsustainable, exploitative, and fundamentally broken. We are currently witnessing the largest transfer of intellectual property in history. Our collective knowledge is being used to train models without our explicit permission and without a single cent returning to the creators. To add insult to injury, the very work stolen from us is now being actively used to eliminate jobs across our industries. We are unknowingly and unwillfully providing the tools for our own replacement. This must change. 1. The Hijacking of Open Source Open Source software was created by people to be used, modified, and improved by other people .…