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A comment on Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data in AI Piracy Probe. Parent comment

Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by nh2 on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:36PM (#42775400)
> Buying millions of ebooks online would take a lot of effort

I don't understand.

Facebook and Google spend billions on training LLMs. Buying 1M ebooks at $50 each would only cost $50M.

They also have >100k engineers. If they shard the ebook buying across their workforce, everyone has to buy 10 ebooks, which will be done in 10 minutes.

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Re:Authors Seek Meta's Torrent Client Logs and Seeding Data ... by shakna on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:29PM (#42776213)
Google also operates a book store, like Amazon. Both could process a one-off to pay their authors, and then draw from their own backend.
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