If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog | Hacker News

A Hacker News thread on Anna’s Archive sparked debate over whether the site is a shadow library, an LLM training resource, or a piracy project sustained by donations.

The post highlighted Anna’s Archive asking LLM developers and donors for support, which intensified discussion about copyright, scraping, and access to books and PDFs.

Commenters linked the controversy to high textbook prices, Z-Library, and the broader economics of academic publishing and online access.

The discussion shows how AI training, copyright enforcement, and publishing business models are increasingly colliding around large text collections.