Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234

108•Cider9986•1h ago

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ThrowawayTestr•1h ago

One of my hopes is that when the AI bubble bursts, some brave person will sneak out a copy of the last frontier model.

Aboutplants•1h ago

Not worried about that, you will only have to wait 3-6 months and get a Chinese model just as good.

yorwba•56m ago

Chinese companies giving away expensive models for free is a symptom of the AI bubble, too. It's not a law of nature that they'll always be able to scrounge up the money for yet another training run.

gpm•52m ago

Shaping the tool that does the thinking is quite valuable when you're in the business of changing how people think - I think we can expect propaganda agencies to be subsidizing model creation forever.

This doesn't strike me as a symptom of a bubble - except in so far as the bubble pushes the competitors models forwards and thus they need to invest more to stay competitive.

rvnx•19m ago

All the models, have to respect their local laws, and most of all, pressure from users and the employees.

They all carry political weights, because humans behind defend their interests, and are promoting some social values.

https://pastebin.com/hjhvsBFg

This answer from Claude is so biased that it is ridiculous

nextos•45m ago

I think it's a deliberate business strategy of commoditization of their complement. China acts like an entire bloc, not single companies, and they want to monetize hardware.

sulam•5m ago

That’s misunderstanding why these models are behind. A large part of why they’re behind is they aren’t able to do the reinforcement learning post-training steps that takes a pre-trained model and turns it into a frontier model like GPT 5 or Opus. Instead they do their best to recreate these models using distillation.

Fundamentally, you can never distill your way to being the teacher, so these approaches will not advance the frontier.

thx67•10m ago

Prediction markets can solve this.

fastball•5m ago

If it's a bubble, why do you care about frontier models?

bix6•1h ago

Piracy / copyright predictions?

The current situation feels untenable with renting. So many regular people I know have learned about VPN, NAS, etc.

specproc•50m ago

It was never sustainable, just regulatory capture by large IP owners.

Spotify, Netflix, Amazon etc provided OK value for a while, but now enshitification is biting, this is due a massive comeback.

codemog•44m ago

Hopefully the guillotines. Look up how much the authors and artists who create the actual work get paid.

FerritMans•1h ago

So AA is a front for openai?

awakeasleep•24m ago

the bounty would be a bit higher with openAI money behind it

650REDHAIR•12m ago

How did you come to that conclusion?

wxw•1h ago

Some more interesting bounties they offer: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

> Purchase all Library of Congress MARC datasets — $3,000 bounty

> English Wikipedia pages about relevant institutions — up to $100 per new page

> Internet Archive Digital Lending — $5000 per 1 million pdf files

> Text version of our full library — $20,000

...

trilogic•47m ago

Who is behind Annas archive, there is a lot of english speakers involved in the team and forums! Anyway as long as buying isn´t owning no issues here.

hedora•43m ago

I wonder how long it will be before they offer bounties for internet scrapes.

Cloudflare captchas have made the internet unusable for me, and I'm sure it will only get worse over time. I'd much rather just browse (or even torrent) a copy of archive.is or similar. The latter would be much better for privacy, and hey, I run ad blockers anyway.

rvnx•41m ago

https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821

Well, there is this little conflict of interest

aspect0545•38m ago

https://xcancel.com/CloudflareDev/status/2031488099725754821

OrangeDelonge•42m ago

Curious as to how you would approach this. I have no experience in this area, anyone on this forum willing to share their expertise?

neilv•41m ago

The US should just find a way to quietly share literature access with the Russians, rather than letting piracy be promoted and facilitated for US consumers as freedom-fighter "archiving".

Between all the piracy, and all the AI training and the purchase/visitor-circumventing AI services, the practice of writing and publishing genuinely good work is being wiped out.

We're killing the goose that lays the eggs, for selfish gain.

mjburgess•3m ago

Possibly but this act of governmental self-harm is useful to The People. We live in a world where if your valuation is ~1T you can more or less just do what you like. And the work of The People is stolen from you and launderd.

In such a world, isnt it useful that governments are stupid enough to give adversaries reasons to undermine it? When the government props up a corporate tyranny domestically, and racketeering, should we make a temporary alliance with all its enemies?

(Eg., the provision to AI companies of all corporate secretes and competitive practices via prompts, eventually to be used against their capital interests and their labour interests).

ahmedfromtunis•39m ago

I live in a country where the selection of available books, especially in English, is very limited. Buying online from foreign markets comes with a long list of administrative hurdles and limits.

If it were not for Anna's Archive and Z-Library, I would've never been able to read the books that shaped who I am today, or keep my passion for learning alive.

Thanks, AA and ZLib! (Also, thank you to the authors whose books and knowledge I consumed without being able to pay them back.)

DeepYogurt•18m ago

Anyone afraid of being laid off at google right now? Perhaps this is a backup :)

Cthulhu_•4m ago

I think if you get caught exfiltrating data they'll sue you for much more than $200K.

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