Books in .txt format for AI training purposes

Re:Books in .txt format for AI training purposes by mcguire on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:30PM (#24888059)

The question is, "Do the creators of bibliotik have proper licenses to aggregate those books into a dataset?" The dataset is certainly a derived work.

Edit: https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/humble_books_20180509/

Cue the "they're depriving me of my income" complaints from authors.

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Re:Books in .txt format for AI training purposes by nix23 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:39PM (#24888182)

>The dataset is certainly a derived work

That was not the question.

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Re:Books in .txt format for AI training purposes by mcguire on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:41PM (#24888195)

"Always impressive how the AI community, both inside large companies and not, seems to assume data just exists for them to use, copyright or personal rights be damned."

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Re:Books in .txt format for AI training purposes by nix23 on Sunday October 25, 2020 @01:53PM (#24888305)

And you where thinking, lets rephrase that question because it's not already boring and obvious enough?

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