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.

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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.

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.