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nh2 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seedin...

> 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.

shakna 3 months ago [–]

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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