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Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model... by taylorfinley on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:42PM (#39631995)
Yes, from the linked paper:

"Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker made available by Shawn Presser (Presser, 2020). Bibliotik consists of a mix of fiction and nonfiction books and is almost an order of magnitude larger than our next largest book dataset (BookCorpus2). We included Bibliotik because books are invaluable for long-range context modeling research and coherent storytelling"

Re:The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open source language model... by pimlottc on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:02PM (#39633932)
This is the most ridiculous legal hand wave I’ve ever seen.

“They’re not books, man, they’re a dataset!”