INSATIABLE HUNGER:

Abstract

The development of Artificial Intelligence has led to intense debates over ownership, authorship, the process of creation, and the ethical implications of culturally influenced creation. These technologies are heavily reliant on extraction. Generative AI is trained on cultural, linguistic, and artistic materials, often without the consent of the creators it's built on. Therefore, AI does not only create; it extracts, consumes, and appropriates the original. My main argument is that AI production shares similar qualities to colonialisation. Both processes share the dependence on the extraction and appropriation of human resources. Colonialisation aimed for territorial expansion through the appropriation of labour, goods, land, and culture. AI commodifies language, artistic production, and creative processes, erasing the source identity. Both processes are based on erasure of the source, exploitation of human labour, and its reproduction for capitalistic purposes. By analysing the work of Ryan Coogler, his movies Black Panther (2018) and Sinners (2025), this paper displays how Black tradition, creativity, and voice become prey to extraction, proprietorship, and marketable consumption. Both movies shed light on violence embedded in systems of power, built on colonial ideas, which aim to replicate, consume, and discard the communities and individuals they are stealing from. Much like these systems, AI production replicates colonial accumulation, consuming language, art, history, style, and overall identity of the source. In this aspect, the 'hunger' of AI is not solely metaphorical, but serves as a parallel to imperial structures, transporting them into the digital universe.