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Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books

240 points by antonmks

by skilled

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> In response, NVIDIA defended its actions as fair use, noting that books are nothing more than statistical correlations to its AI models.
Does this even make sense? Are the copyright laws so bad that a statement like this would actually be in NVIDIA’s favor?

by poulpy123

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I'm not saying it will change anything but going after Anna's archive while most of the big AI players intensely used it is quite something

by haritha-j

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Just to clarify, the most valuable company in the world refuses to pay for digital media?

by flipped

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Considering AA gave them ~500TB of books, which is astonishing (very expensive to even store for AA), I wonder how much nvidia paid them for it? It has to be atleast close to half a million?

by antonmks

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NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data.

by derelicta

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I feel like Nvidia's CEO would be the kind to snatch off sugary sachets from his local deli just to save up some more.

by utopiah

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People HAVE to somehow notice how hungry for proper data AI companies are when one of the largest companies propping the fastest growing market STILL has to go to such length, getting actual approval for pirated content while they are hardware manufacturer.
I keep hearing how it's fine because synthetic data will solve it all, how new techniques, feedback etc. Then why do that?
The promises are not matching the resources available and this makes it blatantly clear.

by 2OEH8eoCRo0

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I've always wondered about some of the torrent whales with multiple petabytes on private trackers. A lot of the whales auto dl every single new torrent that's uploaded. Perhaps even the sites themselves are allowed to operate as a way to get users to crowd source media.

by SanjayMehta

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I'm wondering what Amazon is planning to do with their access to all those Kindle books.

by 1over137

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A great retaliation to Trump tariffs would be just cancelling copyright for American works in your country.

by rtbruhan00

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by hollow-moe

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whatever, laws are for the poor anyways, you ought to think it would be common knowledge by now but nope

by wosined

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Sounds like BS. Why would nvidia need the books. Do they even have a chatbot? I doubt the books help with framegen.