Even worse. They destroyed the library and are now charging people money for telling them what was in those books, often providing an answer that is incorrect.
They destroyed the books and kept all the opinion columns.
This isn't programmer humor though... this is a sad reality.
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot…
Is the same thing that happened to academia. The people submitting papers are paying for the privilege, the people reviewing them are volunteers, and the cost to read them is out of reach for many. The people making money are just maintaining the website.
I just reviewed a paper for a major journal and felt bad for participating, but what else are we to do? Submit everything to arxiv, but when asked to review, seems you should review
Here’s the best part:
They spent trillions building a product worth billions. They don’t even get a moat of it either. All their competitors are perpetually 6 months behind, so they have to keep spending billions more just to keep their heads above water.
Their only hope is to trick the government into regulatory capture so they can finally get their moat. They aren’t even profiting from inference though, so they’re going to continue burning runway.
Then use open source and open-weight AI models and stop fucking complaining, you dull twit!
That doesn't stop the damage the Silicon tech bros are doing
They killed Aaron Schwartz for scraping academic papers.
Capitalism ruins everything eventually
I'll pay you half a trump dollar to take that back
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
It's increasing the value, you see, because before the information was free, which by the laws of supply and demand means it was worthless. It's much more economically efficient this way, as it contributes to GDP! /s
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