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zaptheimpaleryesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

> I assume you're expecting that they'll reach out and cut a deal with each publishing house separately, and then those publishing houses will have to somehow transfer their data over to NVIDIA. But that's a very custom set of discussions and deals that have to be struck.

If this is the only legal way for them to train, then yes that is what they should do instead of breaking the law... just because its not easy doesn't mean piracy is fine.


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rpdillontoday at 12:29 AM

My comment is being misread as my support for piracy; my comment isn't meant to discuss anything at all about piracy. It's instead intended to look at everything that's not piracy, and examining their costs, and why the industry chose the path they did.

Existing rulings are beginning to suggest that if the books can be obtained legally, a separate license is not required for training. So I'm naturally interested in legal ways folks training models would get a lot of books, and whether the publishing industry has even considered the value there.