“Uncovering the Secret: Are Your Beloved Books Fueling the Next Generation of AI?”
A vestige of the Cold War era, Library Genesis (or LibGen) has its roots in clandestine information sharing, and is a massive collection of millions of scholarly books, audiobooks, journals, general-interest novels, comics, etc. LibGen is a Soviet Union / Netherlands-based shadow library project borne out of underground document sharing that Mikhail Gorbachev legalized in1980. Until that point, printed media was strictly controlled by the state and it remains primarily state controlled today. Today, the Russian internet is known as RuNet.
