alt Hacker NewsI would be extremely surprised if piracy accounts for any serious dent in the sales of books.
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chris_money202 • yesterday at 11:29 PM
If this was true, they wouldn't be getting sued and aggressively pursued for takedowns
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I would be extremely surprised if piracy accounts for any serious dent in the sales of books.
If this was true, they wouldn't be getting sued and aggressively pursued for takedowns
The implication is that the self-help books were scraped from Anna's Archive to train the LLMs, thus the content in the books has been integrated into the LLM and may be regurgitated on command. With the content then being available straight from an LLM, there's no need to buy the books.