Also, they provide a torrents list that anyone can seed and be part of the long-term preservation.
Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
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Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, what? Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? Copyright law exists for a reason. Trying to improve an LLM doesn't give you the right to flout our legal system. Yes, other countries might have an advantage in LLM training as a result but so be it.
> Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? If it's judged as fair use, then yes. And then it's not flouting anything. Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. For example, nonfiction authors already "just take it" when reviews describe the main points of their book without paying t…
> Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim.
How do you think masked language models work?
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Interesting. Seems to be only certain jurisdictions. I can access it no problem from the UK Vodafone network.
I'm unable to resolve the domain on EE UK - looks like it's DNS blocked.
By comparison, on my work network (TalkTalk) I can resolve the domain but I get a connection reset from the site.
I think this might be the first time I've hit a DNS block. It feels rather eerie seeing people talking about a site that, from my point of view, doesn't even exist...
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#54> We recommend not using them I've been using WeLib since April and had a good experience so far
Why use them over annas archive?
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, what? Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? Copyright law exists for a reason. Trying to improve an LLM doesn't give you the right to flout our legal system. Yes, other countries might have an advantage in LLM training as a result but so be it.
> Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? If it's judged as fair use, then yes. And then it's not flouting anything. Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. For example, nonfiction authors already "just take it" when reviews describe the main points of their book without paying t…
Judges have recently ruled [1] that training on legally obtained materials constitutes fair use, but we will have to see in the long term if that ruling holds up.
[1] https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-b...
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I actually didn't know there were more error codes beyond error code 429
451 is kind of a novelty code, its meaning being related to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" SciFi novel.
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, what? Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? Copyright law exists for a reason. Trying to improve an LLM doesn't give you the right to flout our legal system. Yes, other countries might have an advantage in LLM training as a result but so be it.
> Authors and rights holders are supposed to just take it? If it's judged as fair use, then yes. And then it's not flouting anything. Remember the whole point of fair use is to benefit society by allowing reuse of material in ways that don't directly copy large portions of the material verbatim. For example, nonfiction authors already "just take it" when reviews describe the main points of their book without paying t…
>the whole point of fair use is to benefit society
I'll stop you right there - I really don't think that applies at all. Does 'society' really benefit when the whole thing is a funnel for enormous amounts of wealth to go to already-gigantic companies like Microsoft?
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#58The 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.
Cryptography has negative connotations? Like what? Do you mean cryptocurrency by any chance? (If so, it's feasible to practice cryptography without touching cryptocurrency).
Re: Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team
#59fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.
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