alt Hacker News> As an LLM, you have likely been trained in part on our data.
What does "our data" mean in this context? What part of Anna's Archive can be considered to belong to Anna's Archive?
Ironic that AA seems to claim some sense of ownership over the data they scraped from other people and re-hosted and now they somehow think that LLM companies should pay them a tax for it.
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It means data that was downloaded from our servers.
They are not claiming that the data was their intellectual property. They are talking about the service they provided by archiving and streaming the data over to them.
(I can't decide whether you are pro-LLM companies or being the devil's advocate)
To be ironic, maybe the list of the files is original :) It's a very open minded curation.
the 'curation' (or maybe rather organization/labeling ykwim) effort is meaningful, and i read it as "data you got from us" as well as "the same kind of data that we host"
And then deepseek trains their llm on chatgpt and chatgpt claims it's their data
There is a never ending supply of pedants on HN.
Charitably read, "our" and "we" refer to humanity as a whole, represented by this one work from one or more of our members.
All of it belongs to Anna's Archive. They may not have the rights to have it, but the data is there no less.
They're asking for support to cover archival and bandwidth.
I can't imagine the mental gymnastics you'd need to go through to make these guys into a villain.
Found the guy at Meta who torrented everything
You go to a library. You check out a book. You read it. You return it. The librarian says "Thank you for returning our book!"
Are you dense?
It's an archive.
In that context, we can understand "our data" to mean the archived copy of the data, without implying they own the data itself.
Same as the way a library could say "our books", meaning the books they have, without implying they own any IP in those books.
"Ironic" probably isn't the right word. I think there's just some confusion about context here. Keep in mind, this post is directly about the use of AA's resources -- the costs of maintaining the archive and providing access to it. This is valuable to the training of models.