Popular online books archive Anna's Archive is monetizing access to their dataset by selling high-speed access to their collection to LLM vendors, and I don't know what to think about it.
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@thibaultamartin my initial reaction is that it seems kind of pragmatic, most of what they have is anyways available as a torrent
And I bet they are being hammered by scraping bots who doesn't realise this fact or can't download a torrent. Meta is having big problems because they were caught downloading the torrents.
I bet many scraping companies are trying very hard to pretend they don't know what they are ingesting, they had "no idea" they were scraping AA , they just implemented all the AA specific anti-anti-bot things as part of their normal attempts to bypass the wishes of the content producers.
I don't see how paying AA for access would be possible for these, but if AA gets a bit of extra donations then that's a win.
@thibaultamartin hmmm this isn’t why I donated to them
@thibaultamartin I guarantee the cops are only going to go after one party in that transaction.
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