Comment by Der_Einzige

The ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR and the rest of AI professional organizations are why this happens. Forced open sourcing of everything. No pay to access. It’s the ideal open academic environment for rapid innovation. We must jealously defend our current system, as it will soon come under attack by those who get angry about democratization of the means of computation.

Also, lots of copyright abolitionists in AI. Many people who work in the space delight in the idea of making information, especially their own, free.

The ghost of Aaron Swartz runs through every researcher in this space.