NVIDIA Pirated Books Training Data

NVIDIA allegedly contacted Anna's Archive directly for access to ~500 terabytes of "pirated" books and papers for pre-training their LLMs Anna's warned them the collections were illegal and copyrighted. NVIDIA's data strategy team pushed anyway; executives gave the green light within days, per internal docs cited in the lawsuit. NVIDIA

A screenshot of a post claiming that NVIDIA sought access to roughly 500 terabytes of pirated books and papers from Anna’s Archive to train its large language models. The joke comes from pairing the serious allegation with NVIDIA’s logo beside a pile of books, highlighting the irony of an AI company allegedly using copyrighted material despite warnings. It can be sent as a reaction to dubious AI data practices, copyright controversies, or corporate hypocrisy. EN: A screenshot of a post claiming that NVIDIA sought access to roughly 500 terabytes of pirated books and papers from Anna’s Archive to train its large language models. The joke comes from pairing the serious allegation with NVIDIA’s logo beside a pile of books, highlighting the irony of an AI company allegedly using copyrighted material despite warnings. It can be sent as a reaction to dubious AI data practices, copyright controversies, or corporate hypocrisy.

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