While The Social Dilemma doesn't talk about intellectual property too much, some of the talks about algorithms and social media platforms can be applied to the topic. The documentary shows how the relentless drive toward user engagement can distort the traditional notions of intellectual property an encourage an environment where content is continuously circulated and repurposed with extremely little regard for the creators of it. The algorithms of modern social media apps often tend to promote an endless remix of borrowed material which fuels a culture in which original creators struggle to control their ideas/content and receive rightful credit for it.
Furthermore, these social environments also raises deeper questions about who is truly benefitting from the fruits of creating original content/art. Since the algorithms of these platforms are designed to prioritize virality and popularity over authorship, the creator of the platform and advertisers benefit the most while the people who actually invest time and effort into creating content can easily have their contributions undervalued. Ultimately, this makes a lot of creators and artists hesitant to release their creations on such platforms without watermarks and doing their best to retain authorship when ideally it should be the platforms job but it presents the conversation of how the digital age should balance the ability to openly share things with fair and respectful recognition of creative ownership.