Please remain up. Libgen no longer works. I've used IRC for fiction and non-fiction but tech books needs Anna's Archive and Libgen. I buy the physical with company budget to pay the author but I need DRM free ebooks to read comfortably on my Tab S9 Ultra.
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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#22Openai need to train their models based on these books, not stackoverflow or reddit.
They do, don't they? I think OpenAI uses libgen.
Meta managed to get into a private ebook torrent tracker called Bibliotik a few years ago to use for training Llama and the resulting publicity essentially killed the tracker.
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#23The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks. - DDOS attacks - Spamming - UK like surveillance laws - LLM scraping Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?
I fully agree. It's difficult though because I genuinely believe that the solution space overlaps with cryptography, which is quickly discounted as viable option because it is now laden with negative connotations.
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#24Openai need to train their models based on these books, not stackoverflow or reddit.
They do: https://xcancel.com/vxunderground/status/1888019174133276846 , https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-o... The tweet only names Meta, but it would be very surprising if OpenAI didn't do the same thing.
Anyone who doesn't train on all material available, legal or otherwise, will be outcompeted by teams that do, including those based in countries that don't respect Western copyright law. It's that simple.
Either this is practice is judged (or legislated) to be fair use, or copyright is done. It's also that simple.
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#25The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks. - DDOS attacks - Spamming - UK like surveillance laws - LLM scraping Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?
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#26This is surprising. I thought last I heard they'd arrested the guy who was suspected of running the site, about a year or so ago. Guess I'm misremembering. Also I'm surprised Cloudflare hasn't shut them down like they do for other dodgy sites.
The two behind Z-Library were arrested in late 2022.
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#27This is surprising. I thought last I heard they'd arrested the guy who was suspected of running the site, about a year or so ago. Guess I'm misremembering. Also I'm surprised Cloudflare hasn't shut them down like they do for other dodgy sites.
When accessing from Belgium the link is blocked by Cloudflare: Error HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons In response to a legal order, Cloudflare has taken steps to limit access to this website through Cloudflare's pass-through security and CDN services within Belgium
Yep blocked by Ziggo in NL as well
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#28Anna's archives is possibly the greatest site ever. Infinite love to the team <3
Kind of... the fact that they have the actual data behind a "soft" paywall (waiting times and terribly slow transfers otherwise) makes me a bit skeptic of their "goodwill".
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#29The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks. - DDOS attacks - Spamming - UK like surveillance laws - LLM scraping Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?
The Internet has been redesigned. It's just not been redesigned with your interests in mind and at least some of the "attacks" are features to the right people.
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#30The entire internet needs to be re-designed to stand up against attacks. - DDOS attacks - Spamming - UK like surveillance laws - LLM scraping Why is it that there is almost not initiative for this?
I fully agree. It's difficult though because I genuinely believe that the solution space overlaps with cryptography, which is quickly discounted as viable option because it is now laden with negative connotations.
nah. cryptography is not seriously held back by cryptocurrency