- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- piracy@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730
cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728
Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
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Download all existing literature to build a library for preservation and you’re called a pirate. Download all existing literature from aforementioned library to train an LLM and you’re a tech innovator. What a strange world we live in.
Download all existing literature to build a library for preservation and you’re called a pirate.
Said library contains petabytes of the exact text of each and every piece of literature.
Download all existing literature from aforementioned library to train an LLM and you’re a tech innovator.
Said model contains gigabytes of a bunch of weights that can never go back to the exact words of the book.
What a strange world we live in.
It’s not strange at all. It’s degrees of compression. You compress a JPEG to the point that it’s unrecognizable, and it’s no longer breaking copyright. It’s essentially like trying to write a book you just read based on memory.
so you’re saying degrading quality while getting filthy rich by stealing everyone else’s work is better than archival efforts? not sure what your point is.
His point is basically that if you remove every 5th word of a book it’s legal to hoard as it’s compressed.
It is but it be very hard to
