In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI.
Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots.
Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach.
Now the library has built its own intelligence.
Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers.
The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top.
The pirates beat them to it.
Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it.
The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London.
Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books.
The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.
...good stuff...
Nice post, u/Winn thanks!
For the kids in the back...
Knowledge is POWER
POWER is what the devil's legions crave more than anything else, including money.
CONTROL the information/knowledge & control the people.
This is why the Vatican has 52 MILES of bookshelves, filled with the collective works of all humanity... Information deemed too powerful for YOU and your kind to possess...wisked away and stuffed into the basement under heavy guard, lock and key...
War and catastrophic events are perfect times for agents of religions, crowns and intel agencies to hunt and commander ANYTHING, including artifacts, art, books and whatever else gives regular people more POWER than they think they should have.
It's not only the Vatican... the Museum of London, Smithsonian, government etc - have all conspired to keep MANY things that belong to humanity locked away... and you know how that goes - "Out of sight, out of mind" - Just look at the censorship apparatus in recent years and alleged "wrong think". Minority Report is one of their favorite flicks...
The War for the Narrative continues... Control their minds & control their actions. Same song and dance for eons....
Let's see how well Sci-Hub continues to weather the storm...
u/#popcornclown
Thank you for this. A dream come true.
Winn for the win.
Nice Winn for knowledge and freedom. Thanks for sharing 🫡🇺🇸👍
Love it!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.
Authoritative, official, academic, respected, peer-reviewed medical literature is roughly 80-90% bunk, based solely on a complete misunderstanding or reality and causal nature. In short, MATERIALISM.
Same goes for papers on astrophysics, theoretical physics, particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology. Those are nearly 100% inaccurate in terms of the "mechanics".
The good news is, if they're widely accessible, it will give a lot more people the ability to stop blindly trusting the authorities, and see for themselves that these so-called "scientific papers" don't use the scientific method, skip the most important aspects of it, but still BRAZENLY CLAIM CERTAINTY, without demonstrating it with "science" itself. They don't use the foundation they claim.