Gregory's ServerYes, it is quite astonishing! SciHub, a platform that offers free access to scientific research articles, is considered illegal, while OpenAI, an organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence, operates within legal boundaries. It is remarkable how our society often prioritizes restricting knowledge instead of encouraging it. This inconsistency brings up significant concerns about the current state of sharing information and the importance of open access to scientific research.
@sharpsolverub It also highlights that #copyright and #patents as they stand today are broken. I think a case could be made that its ideals of protecting and encouraging new ideas was always skewed toward protecting the already wealthy, but this just highlights that we need major reform.
I think AI might be a straw that breaks the camel's back here. If current beneficiaries keep fighting to hold current copy rights they are going to go into a music labels in the 2000s type situation.