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When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2024
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Just let anyone scrape it all for any reason. It’s science. Let it be free.
The OP tweet seems to be leaning pretty hard on the "AI bad" sentiment. If LLMs make academic knowledge more accessible to people that's a good thing for the same reason what Aaron Swartz was doing was a good thing.
Except it won’t. And AI we’ll be pay to play