NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, several book authors claim that the trillion-dollar company directly reached out to Anna's Archive, seeking high-speed access to the shadow library data.

> In response, NVIDIA defended its actions as fair use, noting that books are nothing more than statistical correlations to its AI models.

Does this even make sense? Are the copyright laws so bad that a statement like this would actually be in NVIDIA’s favor?

It's generous of them to ask for permission.

I'm not saying it will change anything but going after Anna's archive while most of the big AI players intensely used it is quite something