The row between the companies begins with the fact that WordPress has two sides: its non-profit organisation, called WordPress.org, and its profit-making arm, called Automattic.

The AI companies want the public to give them a free hand despite an obvious conflict of interest — profit-making companies should not be trusted to make decisions that might impede their profit-making prospects.

Ironically, OpenAI had been specifically structured to allow the board to act as it it did — despite the company’s profit-making potential, the board was supposed to ensure that the public interest came first.

The majority are privately owned and run on a profit-making basis.

He thinks that this metabolic interaction between humans and nature is quite essential for any kind of society, but the problem of capitalism is it really transforms and organizes this entire metabolism between humans and nature for the sake of profit-making.