In November 2022, the US corporation OpenAI released ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model. The chatbot has been trained on a massive amount of data to generate human-like responses to text-based questions. ChatGPT will have a profound impact on labor relations, employment, geopolitics and the very sense we perceive reality itself. Under capitalism, ChatGPT is not primarily a tool for liberation, in the sense that it liberates us from tedious work and allows us to pursue more pleasant activities. It is first and foremost a tool for appropriation, privatization and profit-making. What we are currently witnessing is the appropriation of all collective intellectual and artistic knowledge that exists in digital form and its transformation into copyrighted profitable commodities.In a capitalist market economy, where the majority are wage-dep ...