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AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late (annas-archive.gl)
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[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes...

The document notes how Nvidia reached out to Anna’s Archive, stating that it’s “exploring including Anna’s Archive in pre-training data for [Nvidia’s] LLMs.

“Internal documents show competitive pressures drove Nvidia to piracy,” states the complaint, also revealing that before proceeding with the access, Anna’s Archive informed the company that its content was “illegally acquired and maintained.”

Despite this, Nvidia proceeded with the piracy, which resulted in the company receiving “millions of pirated copyrighted books,” or “roughly 500 terabytes of data.”

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/nvidia-annas-archive-ai-training/

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That doesn't sound like Annie Archive's fault. Eveything has been scraped that they can access. If you run a free service, like wikipedia or AA, there is no way to stop them, as the law is in silicon valley's pocket. No?

We can't stop these ai companies at the point of piracy, not without the law. We have to find other ways, such as [redacted.]