Channel 44

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Mom, artist, book sniffer.

Number of times posted in 2025: 1

Stencil spotted in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

It just came out that Meta downloaded via Torrent over 80 terabytes of books taken from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-Library to train their AI models, and nobody is guilty. In contrast, in 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded just 70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR (only 0.0854% of what Meta took) and faced $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. Unable to bear the situation, he took his own life in 2013.

#FreeKnowledge #JusticeForAaronSwartz #OpenAccess #AIandEthics #FairCompensation

70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR (only 0.0854% of what Meta took) and faced $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison. Unable to bear the situation, he took his own life in 2013. #FreeKnowledge #JusticeForAaronSwartz #OpenAccess #AIandEthics #FairCompensation
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something feels so off about this article on the unveiling of Aaron Swartz's statue. I'd never describe #AaronSwartz as a tech bro 🙄

"The 312-pound statue, carved from Carrara marble sourced from Italy, was crafted using a mix of AI-driven robotic milling and traditional hand carving. Peniche invested $10,000 of his own money into the project, with the remaining $53,500 scraped from donors that included Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe and Mana CEO Max Novendstern."

I am willing to bet that if Aaron Swartz was alive today, he'd not be happy about SF's capitalists using his name to sound like they give a damn about what Aaron stood for..

Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF

Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.

The San Francisco Standard
Eu nem ia postar sobre isso, mas vi essa matéria do tecmundo e resolvi deixar 2 dedos de prosa pra meia dúzia que cola por aqui:

Documentos judiciais revelam que a Meta baixou mais de 81 TB de livros piratas via torrent para treinar sua inteligência artificial.

Funcionários, cientes da ilegalidade, usaram VPNs e servidores externos para ocultar atividade.

As mensagens deixam claro que Marquinho Zuck sabia do que tava rolando. Ou seja, ele cometeu outro crime quando mentiu na corte americana dizendo que não fazia ideia que isso estava acontecendo.

Mas provavelmente não vai dar em nada.

Difícil não lembrar do Aaron Swartz. Jovem criador do Reddit, do RSS e do openLibrary, que tirou a própria vida as vésperas de ir a julgamento com grandes chances de pegar 36 anos de prisão por roubar artigos científicos do MIT pra disponibilizar gratuitamente para todos os estudantes terem acesso a informação e a ciência.

Perceba de forma cristalina que o crime do Aaron não foi a pirataria e sim disponibilizar ciência para criar seres pensantes e com maior discernimento.

Já que pra treinar IA e desinformar ainda mais as pessoas, tá de boas.

Enfim, a pirata... ops, hipocrisia.

#Pirataria #AaronSwartz #Hipocrisia #Meta #WTF #Internet #liberdade #justiça