Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost?

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

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[ninemiletower@lemmy.world]

Nothing. It was pirated for free.

[snotflickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Bibliotik baybeeeee

[general_effort@lemmy.world]

“We cleaned 860K English and 180K Chinese e-books from Anna’s Archive,” a DeepSeek VL paper, published last March, states.

Hmm.

[monkdervierte@lemmy.ml]

The future of AI innovation may hinge on the outcome of a global copyright debate.

Meh, US is not the world.

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Some have allegedly paid.

“We’ve provided about 20-30 companies/teams with our entire dataset. It’s the same data as on our torrents page, but they get access to high-speed SFTP servers.”

“Usually, this is in exchange for a large monetary donation or, on occasion, in exchange for good datasets they acquired,” ‘Anna’s Archivist’ adds, noting that all data they obtain is shared publicly.

[facedeer@fedia.io]

The fact that Anna's Archive is accepting additional datasets as "payment" makes me comfortable that they're not in this for the money but rather for ideological reasons.

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Yeah, information wants to be free. I'd say we just do away with copyright /s

Or I could try training AI as well once this is settled. Of course I'd need to get a few big harddrives to store a few books, audiobooks, misic, Netflix series...

[yetanotheruser@discuss.tchncs.de]

Honestly, this is the best thing about the AI hype.

Remember to support your local (shadow) library!

[misk@sopuli.xyz]

Or it could be that such trade wouldn’t have to appear in accounting