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?”
I suppose the implication is possessing the intelligence capable of earning a PhD but education and intelligence are two very different things and it seems a very stupid way of expressing that concept. Did ChatGPT provide that quote?
I think they know. After all, their heroes are all techbro drop outs with unicorn companies. They can say that precisely because they have no respect for phds.
You forgot the exorbitant—lake-&forest-leveling—amount of energy that we just throw out the window for essentially nothing by training non-specialized models of that size.
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 ]
Amend the terms of use so “if any AI uses content from this site without a license first being obtained the owners and users of said AI hereby agree to pay $10 per day for each and every 1kb of data until such data is permanently deleted and the associated AI learning removed from the model”.
I don't think the lesson you should take from the tragic story of a young man forced into suicide by the threat of a multi-decade prison sentence for piracy is that we need to give copyright owners more rights, reduce the scope of fair use, and punish infringement more harshly.
I specifically talked about AI, which is harvesting data without any payment to the creators. I didn’t actually mention the tragedy as that required no further comment from me.
I don’t see ‘grab everything’ AI is the same as individual fair use.
Hey now. Elsevier doesn't do that. It's far worse! They make the creator pay for the dubious expenses of the review they pay nothing for, the often non-existent editing, and the physical and virtual publication that they also make the end user pay for!
I’m very much in favour of individuals and academia having open access to academic papers. Again, this is different to an AI data hoover taking everything for commercial LLMs. If the AI results are guaranteed to be open source and free, then that’s an entirely different thing.
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.
