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?”
ASU ( like presumably many others ) is handing them all the lecture notes, lesson plans, videos / etc from all their online classes and there is not enough fuck you in the world for president crow and our board of regents/ etc
I mean to be fair it’s not as though public universities are there to educate people so much as to return value to investors
[ assistant whispers into ear ]
Oh… uh… what’s that ‽
[ runs away ]
