Oh, thank you. Basically AI training datasets have been knocked offline recently by DMCAs, and the goal is to bring them back online in a place that can't be knocked offline. The most popular training dataset was The Pile, hosted by The Eye: https://pile.eleuther.ai/
Notice the links now 404. We tried to make a drop-in replacement for those links. All they have to do is change the-eye.eu to thenose.cc in the urls.
Unfortunately there's not a lot of ways to get their attention to let them know this exists now. I'll try emailing the contact address but I imagine they receive lots of spam, so I was hoping to try to get noticed by people like yourself first. Maybe a direct email is still the best way, but there's no guarantee they'll even be willing to change the urls due to legal risks. For all they know I could be logging the IP address of everyone who downloads it and forwarding it to authorities. But I'm not, and it's a frustrating problem to try to solve. I just want to help AI flourish.
This also serves as a template for someone else to do the same thing, so at least there can be multiple mirrors.
Thank you again. The fact that you even took the time to look it over meant a lot. If you have any other ideas, I'd be interested to hear.
The other (depressing) situation is that newcomers often want to praise someone for their work, not realizing they work in a company whose managers are focused on playing games and forming alliances. In such environments, praising someone can actually work against you. I've heard the finance tech industry tends to suffer from this.
Thankfully this seems rarer than the one you're mentioning, where everyone is happy to build a nice company they want to work for. It's an odd situation, where the natural incentives align to reward the opposite. Is there a way to guard against those?
There are a lot of people saying that Usenet is no longer appropriate given today's social landscape. But it's interesting that Satoshi started Bittorrent by posting to the crypto mailing list. That was 2008, a decade and a half ago. But Usenet had died long before that, and long after Usenet-style newsgroups had gone out of fashion.
Text is timeless, and it's worth keeping an open mind that it can work. Maybe specific niche interests are the key; crypto is a big topic now, but back then only a few enthusiasts cared.
Notice the links now 404. We tried to make a drop-in replacement for those links. All they have to do is change the-eye.eu to thenose.cc in the urls.
Unfortunately there's not a lot of ways to get their attention to let them know this exists now. I'll try emailing the contact address but I imagine they receive lots of spam, so I was hoping to try to get noticed by people like yourself first. Maybe a direct email is still the best way, but there's no guarantee they'll even be willing to change the urls due to legal risks. For all they know I could be logging the IP address of everyone who downloads it and forwarding it to authorities. But I'm not, and it's a frustrating problem to try to solve. I just want to help AI flourish.
This also serves as a template for someone else to do the same thing, so at least there can be multiple mirrors.
Thank you again. The fact that you even took the time to look it over meant a lot. If you have any other ideas, I'd be interested to hear.