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Pirate Libraries Are Forbidden Fruit for AI Companies. But at What Cost? (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some have allegedly paid.

“We’ve provided about 20-30 companies/teams with our entire dataset. It’s the same data as on our torrents page, but they get access to high-speed SFTP servers.”

“Usually, this is in exchange for a large monetary donation or, on occasion, in exchange for good datasets they acquired,” ‘Anna’s Archivist’ adds, noting that all data they obtain is shared publicly.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fact that Anna's Archive is accepting additional datasets as "payment" makes me comfortable that they're not in this for the money but rather for ideological reasons.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

Or it could be that such trade wouldn’t have to appear in accounting :)