Paper: AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
allpossiblepaths · reddit · 2026-10-28
An arXiv paper argues AI is repeating history's enclosure movement on the scientific commons: companies scrape public research to train commercial models, while compute and data concentration privatize shared scientific goods, sidelining independent researchers and public institutions. It analyzes the governance consequences and discusses policy responses.
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