@alterelefant @dbattistella

We were told not to feed the beast in the late 90's and early 2000's as it was obvious no good would come of it.

So peeps decided to feed the corporate beast for the next two decades to the most extreme levels imaginable so it looked like Mr Creosote and could not take anymore.

Seems better to say we should all feel sad for feeding the beast.

@dbattistella Any book that has survived wars, fires and centuries should be digitised for the greater good.

If it's a generic font book shat out of machine, digitize and bin it as you would a CD.

Anthropic should be told to make these works freely available.

The past 100yrs of gatekeeping knowledge behind absurd paywalls in ivory towers is not a great model to the extent most academics I know just sail the high seas as basic.