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Well, the fruit of it, Llama 3, is public. Maybe it comes with some sort of license, but considering how it was made, I wouldn't feel guilty about violating it.

Then again, I would happily train a model on Anna's Archive myself without feeling guilty about it, if I had the resources to do so.

I think it ranks very, very low on the list of bad things Facebook has done.

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The similarities to Google Books are interesting. Google created Books based on their own scans of books, which publishers considered piracy.

The legal battle initiated by the Authors Guild was vicious and it damaged and hampered Books and other entities and scanning projects like the Internet Archive.

Now Facebook pirates all the world's books, uses them without paying authors or publishers, and seemingly faces no consequences.

I would strongly prefer to live in a world where we could easily search and access all books, than one where the richest guys get to exploit them without consequences.

When one end of the scale is "widespread and systematic contribution to genocide", everything else starts to look a little rosier, doesn't it?

> Well, the fruit of it, Llama 3, is public. Maybe it comes with some sort of license, but considering how it was made, I wouldn't feel guilty about violating it.

Facebook would quite literally sue you until you killed yourself if you did that. It’s not the same rules for them and for us.

They have no real way of knowing though, unless someone goes advertising it.

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