88 million science papers in a single database... unfortunately, many of them were added illegally.
Sci-Hub (the original database for sci bot) was launched in 2011 by Alexandra Elbakyan.
At the time, she was a 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan who was frustrated by the paywalls of academic journals, as she could not afford access to them.
The site has been ordered to shut down in multiple countries and keeps resurfacing under new domains.
But because it mines pirated papers without regard for copyright, it can pull from a far wider pool than most legal AI tools.
I personally believe that knowledge and scientific information should be made available free of charge, and that everyone should have access to it.
However, I also understand that copyright infringement should not be the means to achieve this. But how can this be resolved?
By the way, the fact that you can pay with crypto at Sci Bot is another major plus point.
https://image.nostr.build/476ebc13a1b5749e73a3743a4f0ea8456d7f350e893d12b9ff5b489a306b2f78.png88 million papers in a single database—unfortunately, many of them were added illegally.