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

Post by jvm___ » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 7:07 PM UTC

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #19

I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurdles and limits. If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z-Library, I would've never been able to read the books that shaped who I am today, or keep my passion for learning alive. Thanks, AA and ZLib! (Also, thank you to the authors whose book…

Post by imhoguy » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 7:09 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #29

DeepYogurt wrote: post #24

Anyone afraid of being laid off at google right now? Perhaps this is a backup :)

I think if you get caught exfiltrating data they'll sue you for much more than $200K.

Post by sulam » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 7:10 PM UTC

computerex wrote: post #38

sulam wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s misunderstanding why these models are behind. A large part of why they’re behind is they aren’t able to do the reinforcement learning post-training steps that takes a pre-trained model and turns it into a frontier model like GPT 5 or Opus. Instead they do their best to recreate these models using distillation. Fundamentally, you can never distill your way to being the teacher, so these approaches will not adva…

That’s not remotely true. They did distillation as a cheap solution to the cold start problem. You need data/trajectories to hill climb to higher capabilities. All large Chinese labs do RLAIF.

Post by LearnYouALisp » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

mjburgess wrote: post #30

neilv wrote: post #18

The US should just find a way to quietly share literature access with the Russians, rather than letting piracy be promoted and facilitated for US consumers as freedom-fighter "archiving". Between all the piracy, and all the AI training and the purchase/visitor-circumventing AI services, the practice of writing and publishing genuinely good work is being wiped out. We're killing the goose that lays the eggs, for selfi…

Possibly but this act of governmental self-harm is useful to The People. We live in a world where if your valuation is ~1T you can more or less just do what you like. And the work of The People is stolen from you and launderd. In such a world, isnt it useful that governments are stupid enough to give adversaries reasons to undermine it? When the government props up a corporate tyranny domestically, and racketeering ,…

Post by takipsizad » Sat, Jul 04, 2026, 7:13 PM UTC

merpkz wrote: post #36

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if you get caught exfiltrating data they'll sue you for much more than $200K.

Copy data into extra large capacity micro sdcard and hide it in your rubiks cube, nobody will suspect a thing