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Who is behind Annas archive, there is a lot of english speakers involved in the team and forums! Anyway as long as buying isn´t owning no issues here.
I think Anna is behind it. https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r... https://reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r/im_curio...
True or not I rather like that one.
If you shouldn't be able to copyright GRAPES...you shouldn't be able to copyright BOOKS.
Who is behind Annas archive, there is a lot of english speakers involved in the team and forums! Anyway as long as buying isn´t owning no issues here.
And then you could obviously just buy it physically where buying is definitely owning, so I find that sentence a bit inappropriate for books
Training on copyrighted material
--> bad
Actually distributing copyrighted material
--> good
Needless to say, this is backwards. Any copyright holder will be much more worried about the latter.
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No, but they openly make a lot of money from selling their library to AI companies. Fast enterprise access to Anna's Archive starts at $100.000
A lot? I would be kind of interested if there were any known figures. Do companies want to be implicated in AA-cooperation in any capacity?
https://annas-archive.gl/blog/ai-copyright.html
> Virtually all major companies building LLMs contacted us to train on our data. Most (but not all!) US-based companies reconsidered once they realized the illegal nature of our work. By contrast, Chinese firms have enthusiastically embraced our collection, apparently untroubled by its legality.
> We have given high-speed access to about 30 companies. Most of them are LLM companies, and some are data brokers, who will resell our collection. Most are Chinese, though we’ve also worked with companies from the US, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and Japan. DeepSeek admitted that an earlier version was trained on part of our collection, though they’re tight-lipped about their latest model (probably also trained on our data though).
It's at least 30 companies, each of which paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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I think Anna is behind it. https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r... https://reddit.com/r/Annas_Archive/comments/1f6h74r/im_curio...
> ANother aNonymous Address. True or not I rather like that one.
This one's good as well. This is an example of a rare good Reddit thread.
Apparently this is the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0
But this is what I thought of: https://youtu.be/hdsB99HQ2S8?t=194
All are examples of people with less power protecting each-other from a more powerful force.
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.
HN logic: Training on copyrighted material --> bad Actually distributing copyrighted material --> good Needless to say, this is backwards. Any copyright holder will be much more worried about the latter.
Another explanation might be a general dislike of big establishments like AI companies and publishers (which glosses over individual authors, but they probably make up a negligible portion of total sales anyway).
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If it's a bubble, why do you care about frontier models?
Internet was a bubble, so was telecom etc. at some point. Being bubble does not mean that when 90% of investments go down the drain the remains are not useful.