“Desperate for books, NVIDIA contacted Anna’s Archive—the largest and most brazen of the remaining shadow libraries—about acquiring its millions of pirated materials and ‘including Anna’s Archive in pre-training data for our LLMs’,” the complaint notes.
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According to the complaint, Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained. Because the site previously wasted time on other AI companies, the pirate library asked NVIDIA executives if they had internal permission to move forward.

This permission was allegedly granted within a week, after which Anna’s Archive provided the chip giant with access to its pirated books.

Les 53 milliardaires français sont désormais plus riches que plus de 32 millions de personnes réunies,
soit près de la moitié de la population, assure l’ONG, tandis que le taux de pauvreté en France atteint un niveau record : 15,4% de la population.