Nvidia has been accused of offering to pay for ‘high-speed access’ to Anna’s Archive, a notorious ‘shadow library’ portal, bursting with copyright-infringing materials. Documents published by TorrentFreak appear to show the Nvidia Data Strategy Team reaching out regarding payments for ‘high-speed access’ to Anna’s Archive. Moreover, if the documents are genuine, they indicate that green team management approved the payment plan “within a week.”
Nvidia, like other AI industry giants, is very interested in gaining access to the largest sources of human knowledge to improve LLM training quality. The likes of Meta and Anthropic have previously been found with their fingers all over pirated content. These super-wealthy firms jealously guard their own technologies, so evidence that they seem to have little or no regard for the intellectual property of others would be a source of irony.
