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If you're risking jail time to distribute as much of the written word as possible, you're going to include AI-generated stuff as well. Because the alternative i
by yorwba 3y ago
If you're risking jail time to distribute as much of the written word as possible, you're going to include AI-generated stuff as well. Because the alternative is to waste time checking every single book.
LibGen already has plenty of garbage: books that were already garbage when they were written, blurry or truncated scans, OCRed text in the wrong script without the original scans etc. etc.
If someone hacks Google Books and downloads the entire collection, are they going to laboriously filter out the AI garbage? No. Just throw it on the Pile.
- carlosjobim 3y agoYour comment makes sense, but we have a real world example to compare to that I think is relevant: YouTube videos. They are not uploaded to torrent sites or other pirate download sites. The closest we have to "pirating" are Invidious proxies. And I'd say that the reason is that the proportion of garbage to quality is so high on YouTube, that pirates don't really want to touch it. If AI slop becomes a problem, it's not going to be included. The incentive for publishers of AI generated books is that they make money selling them to people.
- mapt 3y agoAs Youtube becomes less and less of a stable platform, archivists are in fact starting to do that, but knowing that it's free media provides significantly less incentive for leechers.