“It's exactly the same thing happening on a much larger scale… And that's huge amounts of money involved. They're not going to jail. I guarantee you full copies of JSTOR are sitting in the training databases at multiple companies.”
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The panel was marking what would have been Aaron Swartz's 40th birthday and discussing his prosecution for bulk-downloading academic journals. The speaker says AI companies do the same bulk copying at far larger scale and face no prosecution.
That might get other questions. Mostly, this is not real, right? It's yeah.
Oh, okay. Fair enough.
I've never made the connection with the AI, though. That was the one. I think that's shocking to me when you think about it because they're exactly the same thing is happening on a much larger scale. Oh, yeah. And that's huge amounts of money involved. They're not going to jail. I guarantee you full copies of JSTOR are sitting in the training databases at multiple companies.
Oh, definitely. I mean, you remember all the kerfuffle about Napster 25 years ago. It was just like, stop music as a crime. And it was just like, AI companies, that's what we're doing. It's a functionality. We're
like so past that. Now everybody just has music.
For a month, Meta was the biggest torrenter in the world. So yeah, go figure. All right. I do want to move on to something fun before we jump into some election results. I know we got to cover them because there were some very, very important technology related election results. But before we get…