Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap...
by GolfPopper on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:08PM
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Which is all fine and dandy, but the scrapers aren't looting IP for the public good, they're looting it so they can make a profit. It's the class of people and organizations who were already benefitting from broken copyright ignoring the rules themselves, to the detriment of the countless individuals who kept our creativity going.
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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap...
by xp84 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:42PM
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The intent of the people who built the railroad across America was to seek profit. So too for most of the important vaccines (shout out to Jonas Salk though, absolute mensch who chose not to). Same for many technologies. That doesn’t change the fact that there were massive benefits to millions of others from having those things exist.
Just because AI companies have profit motives doesn’t mean it isn’t cool as heck that some poor kid with a burner Android phone can use a free ChatGPT account to learn about any topic they want.