[dgellow]

> Another case saw half a million e-books of data translated instantly, leading to the arrest of a serious organised crime gang

Does someone have details on this? I don’t see how ebooks translation relates to arresting organized crime gang

[Jtarii]

I believe it means evidence stored as digital data that was translated with AI, which then led to arrests. I don't think the crime gang was translating e-books illegally.

[dgellow]

They are saying the police translated ebooks using AI, so it’s definitely not the gang. Using ebooks to say digital data is really strange if that’s what they meant

[Retr0id]

I wonder if they mean literal e-books, or if "1 e-book" is a journalistic unit of data (maybe 1MB or so...)

[dgellow]

I’m wondering if the article was written by an AI and something was lost in translation (pun intended) somewhere in the process

[markdown]

Apparently an attempt to make e-books the "football fields" and "olympic swimming pools" unit of the digital world.

[varispeed]

Perhaps the AI hallucinated it.

[unethical_ban]

A few members of a private forum exchanging ebooks = organized, pirating ebooks = crime, boom. Organized crime gang. To the police, anyway.