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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIES#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.
Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.
Ben Ramsey
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
calvin 🛋️ @benroyce wow I only remember learning some things about this guy, mostly about Reddit I think. I didn't know that he contributed to
markdown and rss.
Wikinaut@benroyce
Puh, true.
Puh, true.
João Pinheiro@isabelpinheiro Olha aqui...
Vint Prox@benroyce You mean not-so-public Internet, of course? Because that's where money lies.
they took something open and decentralized and walled it off to not so much sell to us, but to sell us
it's like building a cool bar next to the free fountain and piping the water into the bar, and saying "why use the free fountain when the bar is 'free' too, but access means we get all of the intimate details of your life in exchange for a drink"
Pavel Machek@benroyce Copyright is overreaching :-(. Hopefully that is solved one day.
that's a good topic
copyright as a tool of capitalism is a failure
but we also don't want actual artists exploited without benefit
how do we reach a middle ground?
arceuthobium
Suricat@benroyce j'avoue cette comparaison me brise le cœur
@Tacitus tel est le système des abus. il abandonnera la raison et la moralité. pour $$$
Michel MarianiAll my open-source applications are published under the "permissive" *MIT* License... How ironic, somehow!
https://capitalaspower.com/2019/12/the-legacy-of-aaron-swartz-the-fight-for-open-access/
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz: The Fight for Open Access – Capital As Power
Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about Aaron Swartz. Swartz was an internet pioneer who, in his teens and early 20s, made huge contributions to computer culture. Among other things, Swartz helped develop RSS (which organizes web feeds), Markdown (a simple […]
Spooky Frank@benroyce AI is like Aaron Swartz, got it.
both whaling boats and whale watching boats head toward pods of whales, and are alike in this way
but after that, things are, uh, how shall we say, rather different in goals and outcome
@benroyce Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information. Both seek empowerment through technology. Both challenge traditional gatekeepers. Both lead to the broader dissemination of knowledge. It’s tired and boring to assume AI is wrong and bad when billions benefit from it every day.
oh boy
#AI is useless shit. it's essentially the same as #crypto: hype but the substance is less genuine #tech advance and more a certain class of #techbro buying in on enthusiasm, the only difference being the mark for the con job is #FAANG rather than sad randos playing a casino
AI is going the way of 3D TV
Also
"Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information" is some of the dumbest shit I read in awhile
Bye
@benroyce Hello, when will AI die out then?
Jonathan Schofield@benroyce I love that these types can’t go one reply without being rude and insulting.
small, primitive, wingless@silverfish https://defcon.social/@frank_w/112819737363381002
This is what I said. You believe it's right to hate and abuse people who think this way?
Frank (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Swartz’s activism and AI both provide free, easy, and open access to information. Both seek empowerment through technology. Both challenge traditional gatekeepers. Both lead to the broader dissemination of knowledge. It’s tired and boring to assume AI is wrong and bad when billions benefit from it every day.
@frank_w your characterization of unverifiable AI slop as "information" is contemptible
@frank_w to promote it is a form of abuse and it is epistemically correct to hate people, and ethically correct to ostracize people, who do so
please resile from this nonsense and maybe you'll eventually stop waiving your inherent value as a human being
please resile from this nonsense and maybe you'll eventually stop waiving your inherent value as a human being
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦
Dźwiedziu
szescstopni@szescstopni I'm starting to see a pattern of lame jokes, fundamental misunderstanding of computer science, and then rage blocking after being called out. Let's skip to the interesting part, or stop @-ing me.
@frank_w @szescstopni and yet you’re the one conflating ML with LLM.
@theothersimo Large language models are **literally** a specific application of machine learning. Both are incredibly useful despite the hysteria. #AI is the broadest concept, which is why it is beyond stupid to call it useless.
CurmudgeonIt's worth noting that JSTOR was opposed to the prosecution.
It was US Attorney Carmen Ortez and Assistant USAtt Stephen Heymann that decided to prosecute him after the State charges were dropped.
A gross abuse of prosecutorial discretion.
@jetton MIT unfortunately was in on the sadism
Markus Gaines@benroyce All for collectively nominating him as an Internet folk saint, say aye!
RIP to the internet's own boy...
Monte Freeman@benroyce R.I.P. Aaron. You are still missed by many more than you ever knew.
Gone way too soon. 😢
Gone way too soon. 😢