A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.
  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    27 days ago

    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.