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Re:FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale by nyyp on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:34AM (#40563720)
I'm always happy to see the proliferation of open-source resources for the next generative models. But I strongly suspect that OpenAI and friends are all using copywritten content from the wealth of shadow book repositories available online [1]. Unless open models are doing the same, I doubt they will ever get meaningfully close to the quality of closed-source models.

Related: I also suspect that this is one reason we get so little information about the exact data used to train Meta's Llama models ("open weights" vs "open source").

[1]: https://www.annas-archive.org/llm

Re:FineWeb: Decanting the web for the finest text data at scale by ilrwbwrkhv on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @12:04PM (#40575994)
Of course. This isn't even a suspicion. They are using any publicly accessible dataset especially the piracy hoards.