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Meta (facebook) torrented 87.1tb of pirated books to train AI (arstechnica.com)

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[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Isnt thatvway to much volume for text? I would imagine every book ever written to be judt a few tb. But I also don't know much about the issue

[-] Obelix@feddit.org 18 points 2 years ago

They downloaded the torrents from Annas Archive, which are standing at ~500TB currently. Keep in mind that you're dealing not only with text, but also with books scanned as images, books with lots of illustrations, scientific articles with illustrations and also comic books.

[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago

Those books couldn't all be in only plaintext. I'm certain that many of them are also scans.

[-] kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I see. Thanks

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