Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
Summary
Slashdot coverage summarizes TorrentFreak's allegations that NVIDIA executives authorized access to millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to train its AI, citing an amended class-action complaint. The filing claims NVIDIA sought high-speed access to shadow library data and that Anna's Archive warned the material was illegally acquired; it also references LibGen, Sci-Hub, and Z-Library and the Books3 dataset. The article highlights ongoing legal and ethical issues surrounding training data provenance for AI models.