AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
    • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
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      8 days ago

      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.caEnglish
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        8 days 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.]