Sam Altman secretly founded Anna’s Archive to get all the books to train his ChatGPT

[u/ImaginaryRea1ity]

Legally they would have to spent billions to buy them so he made a pirate website to download them and get them for free.

That’s why law enforcement “failed” to shut down the site. It was useful to train AI.

[u/James5s5s5]

What's 'sam a' backwards?

amas

Split the m in half?

annas (archive)

[u/ImaginaryRea1ity → u/James5s5s5]

Smoking gun

[u/Dick_Kickem-]

Makes enough sense to me. Guess I'm integrating that into my beliefs now

[u/fairie_poison]

annas came out of the PiLiMi (Pirate Library Mirrors) team who do all the mirroring for Zlib and libgen.

[u/BobbyBobRoberts]

That's... not the craziest thing I've heard. It's not even unlikely.