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Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by Aboutplants »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #2

One of my hopes is that when the AI bubble bursts, some brave person will sneak out a copy of the last frontier model.

Not worried about that, you will only have to wait 3-6 months and get a Chinese model just as good.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by wxw »

Some more interesting bounties they offer: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

> Purchase all Library of Congress MARC datasets — $3,000 bounty

> English Wikipedia pages about relevant institutions — up to $100 per new page

> Internet Archive Digital Lending — $5000 per 1 million pdf files

> Text version of our full library — $20,000

...

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by yorwba »

Aboutplants wrote: post #3
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #2

One of my hopes is that when the AI bubble bursts, some brave person will sneak out a copy of the last frontier model.

Not worried about that, you will only have to wait 3-6 months and get a Chinese model just as good.

Chinese companies giving away expensive models for free is a symptom of the AI bubble, too. It's not a law of nature that they'll always be able to scrounge up the money for yet another training run.

Re: Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

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Post by gpm »

yorwba wrote: post #8
Aboutplants wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not worried about that, you will only have to wait 3-6 months and get a Chinese model just as good.

Chinese companies giving away expensive models for free is a symptom of the AI bubble, too. It's not a law of nature that they'll always be able to scrounge up the money for yet another training run.

Shaping the tool that does the thinking is quite valuable when you're in the business of changing how people think - I think we can expect propaganda agencies to be subsidizing model creation forever.

This doesn't strike me as a symptom of a bubble - except in so far as the bubble pushes the competitors models forwards and thus they need to invest more to stay competitive.

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