AIAI training and the barriers to reading academic research
A user sees an irony in academia’s wariness of AI, arguing that models can easily consume its publications while people struggle to access them.
TLDR
A user contrasts academic publications neatly arranged in AI models’ pretraining data with the CAPTCHAs, accounts and paywalls facing human readers. They argue that this makes research easy for models to consume but cumbersome for most people—an irony given academia’s concerns about AI’s effects on many disciplines.
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AI training and the barriers to reading academic research
A user sees an irony in academia’s wariness of AI, arguing that models can easily consume its publications while people struggle to access them.
TLDR
A user contrasts academic publications neatly arranged in AI models’ pretraining data with the CAPTCHAs, accounts and paywalls facing human readers. They argue that this makes research easy for models to consume but cumbersome for most people—an irony given academia’s concerns about AI’s effects on many disciplines.