alt Hacker NewsPer reddit [1] the data is safe.
Apparently they run bare metal that they own [2] so I'd assume their servers got compromised hard and they'll need to buy entirely new servers.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1xir586/comment/19rubn...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1xir586/comment/19ruc1...
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anonymous908213 • yesterday at 6:33 PM
> In necessity, we could even switch to the second server with very little downtime
So much for that...
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Hamuko • yesterday at 6:47 PM
Was it mentioned somewhere that they got compromised? And that it's not for example a hardware failure? I imagine lead times for getting brand new hardware would be in the 2–4 week range these days.
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The data's *always* been safe. /r/DataHoarders would never overlook this.
Nvidia will serve you a free, high-speed half-terabyte download right now[0]. It's one with a cutoff date of 2020—but given that GPT-3 was released mid-2020, that's probably the one you actually want, for ML research.
[0] https://huggingface.co/datasets/ray0rf1re/AO3-2020