There should be a new ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) policy being pushed recognizing the important role this plays. Although ESG and all norms have been set aside in this grim new world it seems.
You are not. A disproportionate amount of value in the computing industry was created by <strike>geniuses</strike> decently smart people who worked together and who decided to just tell people how to do things instead of trying to capture the value of being the first person to figure out how to do those things.
This observation pre-dates the current wave of AI hype by a half century or so.
> driven by greed
I can only speak for myself.
For me it's exactly the opposite. If I want to explain how something works, I can just... do that. If I want to share an artifact demonstrating how to solve a particular type of problem, I can just... do that. If I want to mentor/teach, I can just... do that.
Doing those things within the confines of Academia Approved Institutions is exhausting and distracting.
To wit, and the actual point of this post: the term "Publishing Research" in this article doesn't mean "post it on a .html page and share the source code". It means engaging in a very specific and peculiar and extremely political modality of communication.
And it really only makes sense to do that specific and peculiar and political thing you're at a stage in your professional/personal development where you need to play that particular prestige game. (Which there's nothing wrong with, but it is a deeply cargo culted version of the actual scientific process.)
* A disproportionate amount of value in the computing industry was created by g̶e̶n̶i̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ decently smart people who worked together to do things that seemed impossible and who decided to just tell people how to do things instead of trying to capture the value of being the first person to figure out how to do those things.*
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Example: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24653
Exceptions to some like Deepmind, Nvidia, and Thinking Machines
There is some excellent publicly-funded research in there, but pivotal papers like Attention Is All You Need and the numerous pivotal OpenAI publications were privately funded.
OpenAI is at the top of the chart in the study.
I think you're bringing some assumptions into this conversation that aren't supported by the evidence.
Like I said, I think you're bringing some assumptions to this conversation that aren't based on the how the industry came about.
A distinction should be made between the old nonprofit OpenAI and the current organization. They don't publish technical research anymore.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-milli...
The scanning process destroys the book.
Internet Archive scans their books one page at a time keeping the book intact and stored in a warehouse.
> "The print original was destroyed. One replaced the other."
(I believe the reasoning is that the author is not being financially disadvantaged by more copies of their book existing).
So the current law prefers them to destroy.
I usually hear that it's extremely hard to track down the copyright owners for many older things. That's the reason the film/video industry often gives for not digitising the backlog online, and I would expect their volume to be much easier to handle than the book industry.
It’s really not important to come with a totally bulletproof 100% accurate rule here.
The discussion has been around, but it's flared significantly recently. Not sure if that's what the person you're responding to is specifically inflamed about.
Regardless, old/rare books are certainly being acquired and destroyed.
Elon tweeted "I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning"
which is no sense a credible source for what he actually asked SpaceXAI team to do, or if they are doing it, or what they were doing before yesterday. Elon has an extremely long and thorough track record of lying.
The problem remains either way. Small operations around the globe are debinding rare/unique books. I'm involved with an organization considering (not strongly) that exactly.