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They get papers for free, that were funded by the public, or other entities. Then they charge people obscene amount of money to let them download the PDF.

This is dictionary definition of "parasite".

Nobody funds most artists. Buying artwork isn't funding. They produce art from their own funding. Then a company leeches them off and trains models without compensating them.

I am okay at training models on arXiv papers. The authors consented to spread the knowledge publicly.

With such dumb-logic comments, you make it hard to take your point-of-view seriously.

Edit: The copyright of the paper _authors_ isn't being protected. They are being blood-sucked. And, before the Hub, if you emailed an author for a free PDF, if you couldn't afford it, most, if not all emailed you a free PDF.

Harvard famously said that they couldn't afford Elsevier anymore. [0]

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-univ...