| Languages | de, en, maybe fr, la, is, others |
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| Profession | computer scientist and engineer, builds software with quality expectations |
«if Swartz’s actions were criminal, it is worth asking: What standard are we now applying to AI companies? The question is not simply whether copyright law applies to AI. It is why the law appears to operate so differently depending on who is doing the extracting and for what purpose. The stakes extend beyond copyright law or past injustices. They concern who controls the infrastructure of knowledge going forward and what that control means for democratic participation»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
More than a decade after Aaron Swartz’s death, the United States is still living inside the contradiction that destroyed him. Swartz believed that knowledge, especially publicly funded knowledge, should be freely accessible. Acting on that, he downloaded thousands of academic articles from the JSTOR archive with the intention of making them publicly available. For this, the federal government charged him with a felony and threatened decades in prison. After two years of prosecutorial pressure, Swartz died by suicide on Jan. 11, 2013. The still-unresolved questions raised by his case have resurfaced in today’s debates over artificial intelligence, copyright and the ultimate control of knowledge...
Bartosz Milewski
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
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