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@mangeurdenuage What (((Aaron Swartz))) did was:

• White line illegal
• Was done at MIT via breaking into a machine room he wasn't authorized to be in instead of something at his academic home of Harvard
• His bot hammered JSTOR to the point the latter had to shut off MIT's access
• "35 years" was the prosecutor's opening gambit, not was he was really facing
• Self-admitted mentally ill people shouldn't be doing shit like this

What "AI" companies are doing, if it's plagiarization, is very much up in the air legally (fair use is a thing) as well as morally. It's certainly more akin to what human authors do every day than what Swartz did.

Disclaimer: Am MIT alum.