As an experiment I searched Google for "harry potter and the sorcerer's stone text":
- the first result is a pdf of the full book
- the second result is a txt of the full book
- the third result is a pdf of the complete harry potter collection
- the fourth result is a txt of the full book (hosted on github funny enough)
Further down there are similar copies from the internet archive and dozens of other sites. All in the first 2-3 pages.
I get that copyright is a problem, but let's not pretend that an LLM that autocompletes a couple lines from harry potter with 50% accuracy is some massive new avenue to piracy. No one is using this as a substitute for buying the book.
- the first result is a pdf of the full book
- the second result is a txt of the full book
- the third result is a pdf of the complete harry potter collection
- the fourth result is a txt of the full book (hosted on github funny enough)
Further down there are similar copies from the internet archive and dozens of other sites. All in the first 2-3 pages.
I get that copyright is a problem, but let's not pretend that an LLM that autocompletes a couple lines from harry potter with 50% accuracy is some massive new avenue to piracy. No one is using this as a substitute for buying the book.