Stephen McConnachie

Or to offer use of models that explicitly state no training / fine tuning (usually they say ‘improving’) with sent prompts / responses. Google Gemini has t&cs along those lines for API use, I bet others do too.

If in doubt, unless you see written policy otherwise, assume your data will be used by OpenAI to train their models.

Looks good but just to advise some caution - because it is using commercial inference providers like OpenAI there’s no transparency there about the downstream t&cs about using your data and the responses for training or fine tuning those commercial models. And those vary from provider to provider.

Yes! There are loads of open models with very promising results and huge potential for collections data work. I can list a bunch here if it’s useful or we could talk on Teams some time… I am about to start experimenting with them on our new NVIDIA H-100

Saw it last night and loved it - thank you for the steer!

Thanks - I was debating whether to give that a try, I’ll do it

1/5. "I always hoped there would be dogs" announces David Niven when he thinks he's died and done to heaven in A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (#PowellAndPressburger, 1946). Powell was a dog lover and his 2 golden cocker spaniels, Erik and Spangle, had cameos in a number of his films.

The real locations from Watership Down: how they look today When making the classic film of Watership Down, the animators based their drawings on actual places in the English countryside. But have these locations been spared the bulldozers?

This is wonderful www.bfi.org.uk/features/wat...

Film Cyber Security Job Klaxon! Come and work in the British Film Institute and help us to protect our mission and the collections in the #BFINationalArchive from the threats of cyber attack - a new Head of Cyber Security role - closing date Monday 9th of December

This is so useful James, thanks very much! I am going to copy your methods…..

That's a Cybersecurity Advisory worth reading, with many important points to note.

Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization
www.cisa.gov/news-events/...

#infosec #blueteam

James I’ve not done much in the way of lists and feeds yet, what would you recommend as an approach to it?

For those interested, I made a GPT that can evaluate Terms of Service agreements and tell you if the content you're uploading to a service is at risk of being used to train AI models. Just give it a URL:
chatgpt.com/g/g-67410323...

Oh wow! I need to look at more daschund photos obviously

Brown Sprocker spaniel sitting on arm chair in sunlight

Beautiful spaniel! Sprocker? Here’s our Sprocker Truffle

That record changed my brain. RIP.

Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms.
We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data.
Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇

🚨 UPDATE: New Whisper based model competing with Nvidia on Open ASR Leaderboard! 🔥

CrisperWhisper aims to transcribe every spoken word exactly as it is, including fillers, pauses, stutters and false starts

Whisper Large V3 fine-tune - beats it by roughly ~1 WER margin ⚡

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YouTube video by BFI Inside the Archive: how we make 150,000+ titles available at the BFI Mediatheque | BFI

And here's a video! I know, moving image innit www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOUe...

Week 1: 12-19 November 2024 – BFI’s ten-year strategy

For #WorldTelevisionDay here’s how we preserve U.K. telly from videotape at the #BFINationalArchive and make it available in the BFI Mediatheque in London blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access.

Can't wait to share it all with you.

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Anton Walbrook would like to let you know that the glorious Technicolor restoration of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social is now available on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky

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Thanks for reminder, just bought it now...

Erm, I LoVeD Voyage… hoping to go again once I pay off the first tickets…

Beautiful Losers: Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Baker’s Dozen | Page 4 of 14 This record feels like where The Pastels were moving towards for a while. They’d always had great songs but the productions could sometimes be a bit lo-fi and scratchy, which I also love, but by this ...

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I could not be happier to announce that I have curated a season of Luchino Visconti's works, featuring a 4k restoration of my favourite, Rocco and his Brothers, for January 2025. More than half of the films will be screening on 35mm at BFI Southbank. More info here: www.bfi.org.uk/news/luchino...