Alison Gopnik, "Stone Soup AI":

Here is a modern version of the tale. Some tech execs came to the village of computer users and said, “We have a magic algorithm that will make artificial general intelligence from just gradient descent, next-token prediction, and transformers.” “Really,” said the users, “that does sound magical.” “Of course, it will be even better and more intelligent if we add more data — especially text and images,” said the execs. “That sounds good,” said the users. “We have some extra texts and images we created stashed away on the internet — we could put those in.”

I kind of like this reframing of the story, except... While the three hungry travelers did provide the cauldron and the stones and the firewood—they just went ahead and helped themselves to the onions and carrots and chickens from the villagers' stores.

Then they sell the soup to the villagers and cry that there'd be no soup to sell if they weren't allowed to dig around in folks' pantries without asking.