It is about time a creator respects The Commons in the AI era. Their mind did not grow in a vacuum -- they read billboards, handbills, novels from the public library, books passed to them in high school English class and so on. All of us build sentences out of words that precede us and have evolved and been shared for millennia. This interplay and exchange continues in the AI age. To shout "theft" is to dream and cement the path toward a "pay per thought" society. If there is ever to be venal economic exchange for AI produce, levy it upon model outputs, never on its fair use inputs. Otherwise, be honest and demand that we all ought to pay whenever we read a stop sign, or pay whenever we are forced to hear a song we absolutely hate when walking along a storefront.