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One of my hopes is that when the AI bubble bursts, some brave person will sneak out a copy of the last frontier model.
which will be very difficult to run unless you have a large budget to operate your own mini datacenter
Lots of companies will pick them up for scrap metal prices and host them for fractions of what we are paying today.
That's the nature of bubbles.
Does Anna's Archive use a completely different "source repository" from LibGen?
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…
>the practice of writing and publishing genuinely good work is being wiped out. Most of the best literature in the English language was written before modern IP law was even a thing. There's very little good literature written by authors primarily motivated by money.
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I don't think anybody would do it purely for money. I would rather see someone who is terminally ill and decides to do some "good".
There are not too many mentally-sharp, fully-employed, terminally-ill people that I have met. Even fewer at tech companies. And even fewer who are single and childless. (Google would likely go after the estate of anyone who did this.)
This is something they’d want to settle quietly, so the family would have leverage.
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…
https://send.djazz.se/ This is key for getting epubs to your Kobo.
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I don't think anybody would do it purely for money. I would rather see someone who is terminally ill and decides to do some "good".
There are not too many mentally-sharp, fully-employed, terminally-ill people that I have met. Even fewer at tech companies. And even fewer who are single and childless. (Google would likely go after the estate of anyone who did this.)
https://SourceLibrary.org has about 16,000 rare books translated — most for the first time. 50,000 books archived (will be translated when we have $$ for it). More tokens than English Wikipedia and about .75 petabytes. Not sure if we will qualify for a bounty, but happy to share! Btw, we are looking for funding from small or large donors who want to help us translate the Renaissance…
Hey, this looks fascinating! I can't quickly tell what all you have archived^, but I have some friends who are academic historians who might be interested in certain categories of work (and could help verify some esoteric languages) - is it possible to search by region or language? Have you reached out to any types of historians WRT the project? It seems like some PhD students might be able to find some projects in t…
Please share with historian friends. I’m not great at socials or fundraising but this was really designed to support humanists. It can give DOIs for the versions of the translated books, which means they can be quoted and cited in academic papers.
Tip: Try it in Claude or Claude code (even better)! Just point it towards the source library. It can find quotes and evidence on any topic of interest. Or try the librarian — our source-grounded research agent https://sourcelibrary.org/librarian
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll fix the timeline.
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.
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Copy data into extra large capacity micro sdcard and hide it in your rubiks cube, nobody will suspect a thing
I wish an extra capacity SD card was enough, google books holds (probably) an insane numbers of books