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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 1 Nov \ parent \ on: Project Alexandria: Freeing Scientific Knowledge from Copyright Burdens via LLMs AI
Yes.
That has already happened, so I think it makes it all the more important to figure out how to remove the gate keepers from the knowledge supply chain.
If you disrupt knowledge (that's what AGI is supposed to do, right?) only to insert yourself as a middleman, you're going to be in trouble. Especially since the rest of the world has working AI - even if it's mediocre, that just means it takes longer - to help them realize undermining it.
Can you link/speak more about these deals with publishers? I'd be curious to read about scope of the deals
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Cool, thank you. I should have googled myself before asking. For anyone else that's curious, I came across this:
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Those are mostly MSM publishers though - something that the AI companies chase because it's in their interest to buy the journalists. There is less threat coming from scientific publications (and both Anthropic and Meta have allegedly been training on libgen) so these deals are less visible.
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Springer is a big deal, I saw a deal with them. They're privately held too, so less likely to disclose all the terms.
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From https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/10/01/an-ai-companion-for-everyone/ under
CoPilot Daily:We are working with partners such as Reuters, Axel Springer, Hearst Magazines, USA TODAY Network and Financial Times, and plan to add more sources over time.
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