Anti-Piracy Group Takes Massive AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline
gizmodo.com
That pirated set of works contained 37 GB worth of text for training AI. Companies like Meta have already used it to train their language models.
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    1•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The two simply do not mix, and the fumes rising from the surface just need a spark to set the entire concept of intellectual property rights alight.

    As first reported by TorrentFreak, the large pirate repository The Eye took down the Books3 dataset after the Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance sent the site a DMCA takedown.

    His stated goal at the time was to open up AI development beyond companies like OpenAI, which trained its earlier large language models on the still-unknown “Books1” and “Books2” repositories.

    Comedian Sarah Silverman was just one of several authors who signed on to a class action lawsuit against Meta, claiming the company stole their books in order to train their LlaMA AI.

    Growing AI models requires an enormous amount of information, and for close to a decade the technology’s development has depended on using protected text.

    Big tech companies are increasingly uninterested in sharing this data, knowing the more they do, the more other people can build similar AI models, or tangle them up in lawsuits.

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