It would be so funny if this ended with Nvidia getting robbed.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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Allegedly most valuable company on the planet in all of history (can't afford books). Allegedly not a bubble or fraud.
Sadly I think it's more that there isn't really a standard way to buy books and other media in bulk at the scale of which AI training usually requires. So the companies realise they can save both time and money in just pirating after calculating the fine risk. Its just a bonus that they usually get away with it and that the fines would likely be cheaper than a legit transaction. But i do think it's the bulk data packaging that makes piracy look more attractive to them at the get-go.
Heck, even video game publishers often source their roms for their official re-releases from pirated copies because pirates are better at preserving data and keeping it in a nice friendly format. Easier to search for it on the web and download it then it is too goo into their own archives and rip it themselves, if they even still have original copies, cause they sure as hell didn't keep their source code.
There is also no standard way of buying a DRM free epub for personal use so I’m fine downloading them from Anna too :)
Yeah, no, this genuinely doesn't make sense as there are legitimate repositories for these books and can do business-to-business negotiations for access to them. Even libraries have access to ebooks at bulk scale.
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Well, I suppose they could buy access to Amazon’s kindle servers
Hmmm. I wonder what Amazons LLMs are trained on.
Are you suggesting that there is a use case for piracy that has less to do with saving money than it does with convenience and easy access to media in one place?
I dont know why but this is all so funny and ridicolous to me.
Infuriating too, but so ridicolous. Like, capitalism is proving how much it sucks for it to need to go against its own rules. Like it always did this but now it is so pathetically clear.
I support the destruction of copyright. Humanity should have free access to media, be it for enhancing their commercial products or for individuals to develop their personhood.
We need to remove any copyright from whatever is developed by the AI companies.
If the AI can use copyrighted material without compensating the owners, then it should be free for everyone to use/own the content AI creates
Will they be sued per book?
It's not stealing when corpos do it.
Meta torrented their training data from the pirate bay. Hell, Spotify initially built their catalog from pirated music. They all do this shit. Corporations are built to steal our shit and sell it back to us. This isn't any different from pumping oil out of pubic lands and selling it back to us.
pumping oil out of pubic lands
this sounds really painful lol
wish meta had torrented all the viruses, too, would be fun to read the news of "facebook and instagram are offline as meta suffers from cyberattack"
No becaese the lawyer cohort will destroy them.
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So the amend alleges, Nvidia having used/stored/copied/obtained/distributed copyrighted works (including plaintiffs'), both through databases available on Hugging Face ('Books3' featured in both 'The Pile' and 'SlimPajama'), or pirating from shadow libraries (like Anna's Archive), to train multiple LLMs (primarily their 'NeMo Megatron' series), and distributing the copyrighted data through the 'NeMo Megatron Framework'; data which was ultimately sourced from shadow libraries.
It's quite an interesting read actually, especially the link to this Anna's Archive blog post. Which it grossly pulls out of context, as plaintiffs clearly despise the shadow libraries too: as they have ultimately provided access to their copyrighted material.
Especially the part: "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." makes me wonder if that's the reason why models like Deepseek, initially blew Western models out of the water.
You can ask deepseek detailed questions about Harry Potter books and it responds intelligently with (almost) quotes from the book.
Ask chatGPT and it will respond to questions but denys it has read any book.
Interesting, I was using Deepseek for book recommendations and it was exceptionally good at recommending books that are similar to one I just read compared to other models.
Seems strange. Anna's Archive makes their collection available for bulk download as torrent files, they shouldn't need to "cut a deal" for access to that. Just download the torrent and now you've got the whole collection available locally.
They do provide direct access to their books for business who are willing to pay.
chaotic neutral
Which, as I said, seems strange. Why don't those businesses just download the torrents?
Some businesses did in fact do just that.
Ah, low numbers of seeds. Must've just not wanted to wait.
Fucking hit and run lmao
Holy shit the greed knows no bounds.
Wait, so piracy is theft?
Not if it's the rich guys doing it.
AA might be digging their own grave. Overtime the knowledge gets accumulated in the hands of a select few and then they're gonna block people from accessing pirated sites like AA or even worse, AA gets shutdown due to lack of traffic.
It has torrent backup. How would it do either of those things?
It's a really good thought. IMO what they will be producing with AI wont be knowledge it will be slop.
There is always gonna be an indie writer, a local at the pub singing. They cant stop people creating. Download or buy analog of the stuff you like and store it. We don’t have to be a slave to the mainstream dream...i will say though its hard changing habits...but for me, it starts with me.
Hmm so nvidia is training llms as well. Are they going to compete with their customers now too? Like anthropic and cursor?
Good. Can’t wait for the bubble to pop.
So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won't pay the author a single dime?
The trick is not to pay a dime to read it. Even producing Ai slop has a cost. If no one pays for that it must leave a negative.
Stop buying. Or If you have to buy old stuff second hand. There’s already a surplus.
Alternatively piracy is clearly condoned here so again don’t buy.
Why should this development stop at books? There are already generated books available, mostly children’s books (no one’s thinking about them now).
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Allegedly, but holy shit if true. Hard to explain yourself out of that one.
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