Bard spotting on Bluesky 08 February 2025

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 (@chimeracoder.bsky.social):

While this comparison is actually too generous to Facebook (see my reply for why), even as presented here is appalling how clearly our legal system applies a double standard to corporations and billionaires vs. progressive activists fighting for justice.

Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social):

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 (@chimeracoder.bsky.social):

Aaron Swartz is often incorrectly remembered for "illegally downloading JSTOR papers", but all he did was use a university network that was INTENTIONALLY freely accessible. Furthermore, he did not distribute the papers, nor is there evidence that he ever intended to.

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈 (@chimeracoder.bsky.social):

This comparison is too fair to Facebook. Not only did Swartz not actually do anything with any of the data (he literally only downloaded it), but he also did so from a computer network that was both open to the public and specifically authorized to access that data without authentication, by design.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

there is no evidence that he ever intended to

Rebuttal — web.archive.org/web/20130116...

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