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"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" (fosstodon.org)
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[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That depends on what your definition of "publicly available" is. If you're scraping New York Times articles and pulling art off Tumblr then yeah, it's exactly stealing in the same way scihub is. Only difference is, scihub isn't boiling the oceans in an attempt to make rich people even richer.