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Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does... by jacquesm on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:06PM (#49383264)
But not the training data.
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Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does... by derekdahmer on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:57AM (#49383979)
Not sure what your point is - the articles they trained on are copyrighted and not theirs to open source. The only they can legally open source is the weights, which they have done repeatedly.

My point is both Aaron was trying to make the journals public and Meta made models that encapsulate data from the journals public.

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