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4265 author: benroyce@mastodon.social 13 Jul 2024 20:57
tags: #aaronswartz #ai

#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.

Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.

Bilawal Sidhu:

It's wild that Aaron Swartz was aggressively prosecuted for scraping JSTOR articles.
Meanwhile huge companies routinely scrape the public internet and sell it for $20/month and all is well.
Aaron helped create RSS, Creative Commons, Markdown and a little site called Reddit (which now ironically sells its data to Al companies) - all by the age of 26.
All he wanted was free and open access to information. Really makes you wonder the dent he'd have made on the world if he was still alive today.

Susan Swartz, Jul 12:

11 years, 6 months. RIP my darling boy.

image of Aaron

6:53 AM Jul 13, 2024