Comment by chaos_emergent
6 months ago
Aaron Swartz, while an infuriating tragedy, is antithetical to OpenAI's claim to transformation; he literally published documents that were behind a licensed paywall.
6 months ago
Aaron Swartz, while an infuriating tragedy, is antithetical to OpenAI's claim to transformation; he literally published documents that were behind a licensed paywall.
That is incorrect AFAIU. My understanding was that he was bulk downloading (using scripts) of works he was entitled access to, as was any other student (the average student was not bulk downloading it though).
As far as I know he never shared them, he was just caught hoarding them.
> he literally published documents that were behind a licensed paywall.
No he did not do this [1]. I think you would need to read more about the actual case. The case was brought up based on him download and scraping the data.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz