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Data and the ethics of its use, including overly hyped AI.

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The person responsible for the crime - is the one who committed the crime using the tool.

We can all get access to things that can do harm, but actually doing harm is a choice.

Legislation can be created to prevent harm which will create a new crime e.g. It's illegal to sell knives to under 18s

18.02.2026 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Models we know were trained on pirated books (a non-exhaustive list):

GPT-3 (OpenAI)
GPT-3.5 (OpenAI)
Claude 1 (Anthropic)
Claude 2 (Anthropic)
Llama 1 (Meta)
Llama 2 (Meta)
Llama 3 (Meta)
OpenELM (Apple)
BloombergGPT (Bloomberg)
Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (Microsoft & Nvidia)

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14.02.2026 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Next phase:

21.01.2026 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Should we be impressed more by the size of the M&M or the size of the Chicken Leg? What's the scale here exactly?

17.01.2026 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems unnecessary. Once they are in the cloud they can't do anything other than be experimental data or at best virtual "lab rats".

04.01.2026 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The other sellers of Tai Chi Super Hero training are after me now.

I have done Tai Chi before, many years ago and its quite a laid back art. One thing it is not is super muscle building.

02.01.2026 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The avatars even appear shirtless in "Ted Talk" style settings. That would be absolutely fine. I image it's normal and even expected at a Ted Talk for a random audience member to ask how her husband can get get the full benefits of Tai Chi. "start small" is the key it seems...

02.01.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The answer is no. Obviously i's no. Your "Dad" is 'just doing it wrong' ...as you can see from my shirtless body.

02.01.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The algorithm has locked me in for these adverts now. Clearly any interest at all = show more and charge their customer for better quality "interested" eyes. My interest is mainly hilarity.

This one address the complaints...

02.01.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mr.Fake Universe is back. This time topless at a conference. Is the inference we are meant to take is Tai Chi makes you this size? :)

01.01.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Ai avatar of a topless extremely muscular shao-lin monk in an interview

Ai avatar of a topless extremely muscular shao-lin monk in an interview

Internet Adverts have been unethical for quite some time, but in the era of AI, adverts can now have a high level of "visual exaggeration" :). Like here a YouTube Ad that sells Tai Chi exercises via Mr.Universe avatars that try to look like Shao Lin monks (there were 2 in this 1 ad).

01.01.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Its always had a desktop form factor - just buy a case for it. This is just a bigger case with a bigger power supply.

28.12.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*the humans

18.12.2025 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Brutal (but fair) Guardian headline today

Only 3% of respondents to the UK government’s consultation on AI & copyright supported their unfair plan to hand AI companies people’s work for free.

95% said AI companies should license training data.

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16.12.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

I really don't understand the love for this film. It's very odd.

12.12.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder

10.12.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's never good to use simpler words. Then people only really know simpler words.

08.12.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
When Podcasts Platform Terrible People
YouTube video by Ryan George When Podcasts Platform Terrible People

The most unsubtle, yet brilliantly done, argument on popular Podcasts and the "both sides" argument. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq3...

17.08.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

^you

26.11.2025 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ethics is part of Data Governance. AI is just another technology solution your pay for or build, and is subject to your Data Governance framework. The concepts, controls and processes around this are free and available.

26.11.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Scholar Is Doomed Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

13.08.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 932    πŸ” 408    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 132

There's always someone along in a minute that wants to make it about them. :)

16.11.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bending the knee? That's British subtlety, but it is still clear.

15.11.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man talking to a robot which says it 's high it 's very high ALT: a man talking to a robot which says it 's high it 's very high

I immediately went to the replies to count the occurrences of "inconceivable". :)

02.11.2025 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The United that plays at Old Trafford.

27.09.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well that was nonsense. Hope someone had some fun making it up at least.

25.09.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

β€œEither we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” β€”@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n

24.09.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 396    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

The "internet" is just computers networked together - there was nothing to doubt. The unethical use of it is a different matter.

03.09.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where's "Social Media"?

03.09.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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MicrosoftΒ Word now automatically saves new documents to the cloud Word documents will be automatically saved to OneDrive

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default*

Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org

www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

03.09.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1568    πŸ” 693    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 73

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