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The people training LLMs have billions of dollars and the people using it to read that can't afford a $300 journal do not.

So training is legal and reading is illegal.

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So, the solution to legal problems is… money? Lots of money?

Always has been.

Meh, I’d say power, the power is just being conveyed through money in this scenario

Money and political/legal power are freely and effortlessly convertible both ways.

access to money. don't even need to use it.

beautifully put, thank you! it's the golden rule - those with the gold make up the rules.

Gold or money is a just proxy for power.

Power is the final crux here.

They are cross fungible and leverage able, so this is a silly empty distinction.

But money has historically been more effective at producing or controlling power than the other way around.

They are not cross fungible.

Money/gold is a proxy in the current social system.

that's right, the neanderthals didn't use gold, they hit each other with clubs.

I'm not sure I can agree with that, because historically speaking would include the time we had nobility. And in that time period, having money would not provide you with power, as nobles were beyond the law and could simply cease it for themselves.

money would buy you mercenaries to overthrow the nobility.

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