https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
tl;dr stealing for science.
“Free shit for me but not for thee” - Capitalism
I feel like they should be paying more per thing viewed than I do as a human
They pressured the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.
the RSS guy to kill himself for scraping stuff and freely sharing, by threatening him with a stupid amount of jail time.
which guy was this?
Aaron Schwartz. Had some dubious ideas but he believed in total freedom of information. He downloaded and redistributed a shitload of content off JSTOR illegally because he felt that paywalling scientific studies was bad, was caught, and committed suicide when facing an unbelievably harsh sentence from a rabid DA.
“On what grounds?”
“It’s devastating to my case.”
I mean, yeah. Which is why AI should be done as publicly owned research and made freely available. It’s the fucking Commons.
