@GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
2026-09-23 22:10 UTC
Replies (15)
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@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-23 22:24
This is disconnected from reality. The “library” is still there and still free. No one is charging anyone admission. They’re charging admission to a different transformative work based on that library, but you haven’t lost anything you had before if you refuse to pay.
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@DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2026-09-23 22:31
Even worse. They destroyed the library and are now charging people money for telling them what was on those books, often providing an answer that is incorrect.
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@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-09-23 22:37
Enclosure
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@thejml@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-23 23:12
This isn’t programmer humor though… this is a sad reality.
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-09-23 23:40
We built the library Shame you forgot to take ownership of it.
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@discocactus@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 00:34
They killed Aaron Schwartz for scraping academic papers.
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@chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 01:39
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.
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@Ajen@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-24 01:43
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.
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@ReCursing@feddit.uk 2026-09-24 01:44
Then use open source and open-weight AI models and stop fucking complaining, you dull twit!
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@chahn.chris@piefed.social 2026-09-24 02:17
They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot…
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@CheesyFingers@piefed.social 2026-09-24 03:00
Don’t worry, your own peers are on the frontlines standing against you lmao
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 03:21
Also every non-programmer is mad at the people who built those tutorials, instead of the ones stealing.
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@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-24 04:00
… Humor?
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@adjectivenoun@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 04:07
I want to know where they think this will go, because there is an obvious and looming problem: the content–the library–wasn’t made or at least hosted for free. Somebody set up a website to host the interactions between people who knew things and people who wanted to learn things. The people exchanging information often got as much as they gave, and the person hosting the forum typically sold ads or information about the people participating in the discussions. The result as a virtuous cycle where content gets made and everyone is happy. Now all those sites are scraped, and their information is regurgitated by slop bots into a “zero click search” where the creators of the information have no role, the seekers of information never encountered the source, and the hosts never get their slice of the pie. OK, well that works for now, but what about when something new is made and there’s no forum to talk about it because all forums get scraped into the slop machine? How will the slop center learn? Are we supposed to expect the AI companies will spend time meticulously testing how best to DIY a mass spectrometer or whatever?
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@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2026-09-24 05:43
MIT license in a nutshell?