Ultimately it probably is. Technological innovation tends to translate sooner or later into economic growth, power, income, etc.

90€? La Science Ouverte a encore un peu de chemin à faire...

Iirc the judgement wasn't about using copyrighted books to train the AI, but about a portion of the books they didn't purchase but pirated. About the first part they were in the clear. So I don't expect many similar payouts tbh, but I might be wrong.

Et j'ai même une question spécifique: cet ouvrage, comme les noix de pécan dans un cookie, contient-il des éclats de Judith Shklar?

Oh! Peut-on avoir une idée de la table des matières ?

So in the end it's an employment issue, not a quality issue per se, correct?

I understand and concur. I have a follow-up question though: if your argument here is about the quality of the reading and an AI Voice became so good you couldn't spot it, would you opinion change?

Valable aussi svt pour l'extrême gauche. Cf la phrase de Léon Blum à propos du PCF dans les années 1930: il n'est pas à gauche, il est à l'est.

Hum hum... Amitiés, amitiés... Voilà. De première classe. Pis la santé.

When all due respect it's expensive for the library as well. Libraries are not rich uncles and academic authors can't offload the burden of a disfunctional scholarly communications system unto them indefinitely. They're struggling.

Lapsus ou incompétence on ne sait trop: ils sont déjà citoyens aujourd'hui, ils seront électeurs demain.