Silicon Valley’s Benin Bronzes: The Shared Logic of Museum Looting and AI Scraping

We must recognize that the fight against unregulated, predatory AI models is not merely a niche legal battle over copyright infringement or digital licensing. It is a deeply political, inherently decolonial struggle. It is a continuation of the exact same resistance that indigenous and colonized communities have been waging for centuries against the institutional forces that seek to commodify, centralize, and erase human history.