"Aaron Swartz was threatened with decades in jail for accessing (not disseminating) information; Sam Altman, whose company has accessed—and openly monetized—orders of magnitude more information than Swartz, has polluted and then regurgitated that information to the public, and gathered endless cash reserves from investors with which to fend off lawsuits challenging its commercial ambitions."

Ironic that this article is using emdashes, which means there is a 99% chance it was written using AI.

Swartz broke into a locked room and copied information he didn't own. A Hacktivist that had the mindset of a petty dictator: Do what I want or else. Someone like this should never be in charge of our future.

He's not a role model or someone we should admire.