• OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    The other reason they don’t do it is because many models are trained on a large corpus of pirated texts, and documenting this would be a confession.

    Not just in an ‘I scraped the new york times without permission’ kind of way, but in a ‘I illegally downloaded a torrent containing bestsellers from the last 30 years’ kind of way.

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      1 month ago

      Bestsellers? There used to be torrents of basically all releases. My provider blocks torrent sites and I dont use a vpn so im not sure if people still do this, but downloading basically all books (in english) at once released in a certain period was possible