Comment by orangecat

11 hours ago

Which is not "theft" according to current legal precedent, and also common sense.

Download a book and you are a thief

Download 1 million books and you are OpenAI

  • What? HN has always praised Library Genesis for example.

    • Libgen isn’t trying to sell you back the content for $100/month. No one would be complaining if OpenAI open sourced their models.

Hunting an animal would be considered ok by most, but scaling it to the point of damage is not ok according to most.

It is theft under common sense.

  • Only in the sense that you reading a book from the library also constitutes theft of knowledge. Does it?

    • If I stole someone's private research notes and republished them loosely in my own words, they'd correctly be pissed

      This was unpublished research that was stolen, and constitutes plagiarism and academic fraud by even the strictest definition

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