Screw scholarly journals and giant publishers for squeezing cash out of already-thin academics while being shitty gatekeepers, letting complete trash through while blocking others (among other things). They’re greedy, stagnant, exploitive middlemen.
Doesn’t make what Zuck\Facebook did OK, but I have zero sympathy for the monopolistic “victims” here, especially since it’s going to open weight models one can use for free.
The “piracy database” in question is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Screw scholarly journals and giant publishers for squeezing cash out of already-thin academics while being shitty gatekeepers, letting complete trash through while blocking others (among other things). They’re greedy, stagnant, exploitive middlemen.
Doesn’t make what Zuck\Facebook did OK, but I have zero sympathy for the monopolistic “victims” here, especially since it’s going to open weight models one can use for free.