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Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by streetfighter64 »

randallsquared wrote: post #198
streetfighter64 wrote: post #118

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That's a very weird definition of "your data" that goes against e.g. the GDPR definition, etc.

If the GDPR is wrong, it's not the first time. See Lysenko.

Lysenko as in the Soviet scientist? I don't really see what, if anything, a mistaken belief about evolution has to do with legal or moral definitions about ownership of data.

Saying "Lysenkoism is true" is factually wrong, but saying "physical possession is equivalent to ownership" is just a very fringe political opinion.

So I don't see how "the GDPR" can be wrong, unless you mean it in the sense of "the death penalty is (morally) wrong", which is just your opinion in that case.

My point is this: If your insurance provider, for example, obtains access to your medical records, and store them on their servers, does that make it "their data" to use as they please? This would imply that:

> But if the data is on a storage media that you own, I would consider it your data

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by throw10920 »

yoavm wrote: post #201
throw10920 wrote: post #193

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How does Levin "use the diskspace you don't use"? That sounds like a neat feature but I'm not aware of any APIs for that on desktop platforms.

You configure Levin to "always leave 2GB available". Levin checks the available diskspace using a simple statvfs call, deducts 2GB, and sees that as its budget. It then checks your diskspace every minute (more or less, depending on the device) to see if anything changes. If more free space is suddenly available, it will download more content. If there's less than 2GB available, it will immediately start deleting its…

That's a neat hack, thank you for sharing.

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by Minor49er »

andsoitis wrote: post #73
scotty79 wrote: post #70

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It is. They gathered it. They stored it. They served it. That's how data should work and eventually will.

Who created the data?

I created the data on my computer when I downloaded a copy of it from the web

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by Minor49er »

scotty79 wrote: post #70
knivets wrote: post #53

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this is not their data though

It is. They gathered it. They stored it. They served it. That's how data should work and eventually will.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted when You're just describing typical Internet behavior. How many archive or search engines have come and gone that have scraped, saved, and served data from other sources (verbatim no less) with little to no scrutiny?

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by bigfishrunning »

yoavm wrote: post #156
duozerk wrote: post #154

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So you did use LLMs to write at least part of the software. I imagine you feel no shame, but it would be nice to at least mention it on the github page. It's a security risk. As for your question, I don't know about the person you're replying to, but for me any software where part of the source was provided by a LLM is a no-go. They're credible text generators, without any understanding of, well, anything really. Usi…

I wish I could speed up time just to see how this comment would age. While I personally prefer living in a world without LLMs, I do suspect you're going to end up without any software.

I suspect we'll all end up without any software, once we've successfully gotten rid of anyone who can evaluate the output of an LLM

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Post by bigfishrunning »

jtbayly wrote: post #133
nicbou wrote: post #98

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It would likely happen in Germany, unless you have a VPN. This has been a problem for years when torrenting films. Chasing people with fines has been a lucrative, automated business for years.

films are not books, though.

They are, you just have to turn the pages really fast

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by barnabee »

petercooper wrote: post #4

For those in countries that censor the Internet, such as the UK where I live, this page basically says what Anna's Archive is (very superficially), shares some useful URLs to accessing the data, asks for donations, and says an "enterprise-level donation" can get you access to a SFTP server with their files on it.

Works for me in the UK

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by acessoproibido »

SecretDreams wrote: post #172
yoavm wrote: post #166

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Assuming you are referring to non-books kind of content: I assume that if this happens to anyone, we'd learn about it and all stop seeding AA's content until they explain what happened and how they're making sure it doesn't happen again. The poor person this happened to will have to explain that this wasn't at all what they thought the software was doing. As I said in other comments - yes, this requires some kind of…

AA has plenty of illegal and gray content. It's not something laypeople should help to seed. You need to go in eyes wide open and protect yourself if you're participating, which I do not feel you are sufficiently emphasizing in this pitch.

What is an example of illegal content that is distributed by AA?

Re: If you’re an LLM, please read this

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Post by acessoproibido »

ozim wrote: post #205
rolymath wrote: post #184

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Why do none of you understand that this is for Anna's archives official torrents only?

It is first time I see name of that project. I don't know anyone who is involved in that project. On Wikipedia I see it "shadow library launched by pseudonymous Anna". "Anna's archives official torrents only" - doesn't put me at ease and it is far far from SETI@Home that was ran by highly regarded university and it wasn't storing any torrents on people hard drive. Random people should not "just try it out because it…

Only people who already know and trust AA are going to use it - that is the point of this project
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