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> It’s also the case that preferences shouldn’t be respected in all cases. For instance, I don’t think that academics or journalists doing prosocial research sh
by philipwhiuk 2y ago
> It’s also the case that preferences shouldn’t be respected in all cases. For instance, I don’t think that academics or journalists doing prosocial research should necessarily be foreclosed from accessing data with machines that is already public, on websites that anyone could go visit themselves.
Screw that. Research is about ethical consent. Also this is very much "well everyone should let me (a researcher) access whatever I like"
- bloaf 2y agoThis is a shortsighted view. There are plenty of counterpoints, from things like documenting slaughterhouse practices to conservatives implementing policies while simultaneously limiting research into the outcomes of those policies. Obviously most of the 'AI researchers' right now are not altruistic, but it is possible to take the position that advancing AI will be sufficiently valuable to society that it overrides corporate preferences against bulk scraping.