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

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 ...

Mediapart can reveal that a French start-up called Mistral AI has used writings protected by copyright law to train its ...

Following a "backlash," Microsoft has removed a blog post [archive.is] suggesting that you train an AI on Harry Potter, which ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With AI artwork on the rise, people have used it to generate “what-if” scenarios. For example, if you ever wondered what ...

Is that really Draco Malfoy as Peter Pan?! Donning brown hair and a green tunic? Now, if only that was a full-body photo so I can see our favorite Slytherin in those tights! Would The Lost Boys be ...

The feeling that one gets after finishing a good movie, series, book or a show– is truly unexplainably sad. The love for the most impressive characters, the thrill of the plot and the drama of the ...

It’s the night before Christmas, and it’s time to build a snowman. But the participants in this activity aren’t just any schoolchildren — a cameras pans to Hogwarts’ finest: Harry, Hermione Ron.

In late January, a software maven launched Moltbook, an online platform that artificial-intelligence bots quickly used to create the Church of Molt, with doctrines to guide digital life.

WB believes that the Harry Potter HBO show may be the biggest streaming event in the history of the medium. It might be close ...