Aaron Schwartz was harassed by the feds until he took his own life for releasing publicly-funded academic works wrongly locked behind paywalls, yet we let venture capital funded slop machines assault the cornerstones of our public knowledge, to the point where they are rendered inaccessible by the general populace.
When ChatGPT 3.5 dropped, there were lots of people calling for “guardrails” and “common sense legislation.” They were shouted down and called Luddites. These are the kinds of situations we should have been able to prevent.
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