no no no you see, putting papers behind paywalls actually incentivizes innovation because… wait what?
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Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
So making access to information free is helping scientific progress? Wow, who could have imagined that!
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Careful, lest the AI haters hear that.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Free papers = free access to information LLMs = trash
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The AI haters I’ve seen really hate free access to information. Well, there’s apparently other kinds.
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Very misguided.
moriquende@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In your eyes, what are these AI haters complaining about?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be clear, here is what I mean by rent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seems to be mainly about property owners not getting enough rent.
moriquende@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure you have understood that people don’t want to profit from their data, they want to avoid corporations stealing their private texts and pictures to train models they’ll profit from.