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“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says (www.wired.com)
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The cool professors used to make a "study guide" especially if it was their own book that they'd give out for free and told everyone to return the books

It's been a minute, so not sure if it's a thing still.

But yeah. Unregulated capitalism pretty much always ends this way.

You have to buy the book, so they pump out new editions constantly and charge insane prices. It's a captive market