Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”
His crime, in the eyes of the system, was not the taking, but to try and make these things freely available. For another large entity to steal and charge more in turn is merely the proper functioning of our Hobbesian nightmare version of Capitalism, which Adam Smith would disavow in a heartbeat.
