Can you give an example of what you mean?
replyhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/academi...
replyhttps://www.wired.com/story/top-ai-researchers-financial-bac...
I live in Cambridge, MA there are dozens of these relationships going on; big tech offers lucrative access to cutting edge hardware in return for closed research.
Just more insidious ways on how big tech requires massive amounts of welfare to exist and persist.
Your first sentence and second sentence don't reconcile in practice.
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