Comment by Der_Einzige

There's never been a scientific field in history with the same radical openness norms that AI/Computational Linguistics folks have (all papers are free/open access and models/datasets are usually released openly and often forced to be MIT or similar licensed)

We have whoever runs NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML and the ACL to thank for this situation. Imagine if fucking Elsevier had strangleholded our industry too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Computational_...