Intellectual Property (IP) was never really a thing.
It's nice to think you have some form of IP protection, but in reality, you never have-especially authors.
I'll use as the example since he spoke about it recently.
Let's say someone feeds his (fantastic) book How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big into some AI and it can now regurgitate all his talking points verbatim. When the AI is prompted it may feed you his ideas which you can pass off as your own.
Scott is still the base author and creator of those ideas. People who want to learn from him will still seek out his books and articles on the topic.
People who don't care and just want the info will use AI.
How is that different from the status quo without AI?
It's not much different at all.
Within a day of publishing his book, there are dozens of people who copy it, rephrase it, and regurgitate the same ideas at a fraction of the cost.
It's very easy to rename ideas and call them your own.
Talent stack = skill pile
Systems > goals = Process > end point
Skill > passion = talent > enjoyment
This is so common that someone like James Clear wrote an entire book (Atomic Habits) using Scott's ideas and adding his own spin on them. He openly admits this in the prologue.
Scott spent decades developing these ideas and wants to see some return on investment, so he charges $20 per book to get some back. The Chinese bottom-feeder doesn't care if they get $3 per book.
This has always been a problem with Intellectual Property.
The reality is you don't own ideas. Very few, if any, ideas are truly original in 2025. They are all derived from some prior thinker, a mentor, or something you've read before. That doesn't negate the value of your ideas.
AI is just a more efficient way to "steal" ideas. The Internet did the same thing. It also makes it much easier to catch a fraud. If you feed those rehashed ideas into AI it will tell you where they are likely derived from (I tested it).
I'm sorry if you didn't know Intellectual Property was fake all along. Authors should have some protections against outright copying of their content. You aren't entitled to protections on your ideas.
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