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Copyright enforcement double standard compared to OpenAI and Anthropic training

April 6, 2026r/OpenAI

In r/OpenAI, discussion of Aaron Swartz resurfaces as a policy critique that OpenAI and Anthropic trained on copyrighted content at scale while individuals faced severe prosecution for sharing academic papers.

FBI kept tabs on him and charged with multiple felonies, was looking at 30 plus years in jail for essentially publishing academic journals publicly.
Its so fucked considering likes of OpenAI and Anthropic have essentially ripped every piece of copyrighted content and face no real consequences.
Ironic that he took his own life due to being prosecuted due to downloading academic journals without explicit permission, something OpenAI now does at an industrial scale previously unimaginable.
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