Microsoft’s deleted Harry Potter AI blog highlights the messy ethics of training large language models on pirated content.

It’s becoming somewhat of a theme that machine-generated content – whether it’s code, text or graphics – keeps pushing people ...

A 2024 blog post, now remoted, pointed to a pirated collection of all seven Harry Potter novels and showed users how to use it to make a generative AI system.

The official "Introduction to Github" page included an AI-generated graphic with the phrase "continvoucly morged" on it, among other mistakes.

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

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The project has been in the works for almost three years, economic developers say, but the company has been quiet about its plans at the site in Woodsdale Township.

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Microsoft confirms a wider rollout of Windows 11's new colourful battery icons on the taskbar. New Start menu is also rolling out.

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