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This is extremely useful, thank you for sharing. The Anthropic ruling is interesting. It seems to set the precedent that it is okay to train LLMs on published works, as long as these have been acquired legally. Or did I misinterpret that?

I get a daily summary of the most important publishing news (UK and US) from the usual trade news sources… today’s bulletin is below. I’d be happy to share it in the Colony… Let me know if you might find this useful, or if it would be overkill...

As a teacher working with under 13s, I REALLY worry about their generation. That AI summary comes up at the top of the page on a Google search, and no matter how often I tell them they need to scroll down, find a proper website created by a...

A lot of the problems with AI occur because we don’t have a good grasp of what it is that its actually doing. AI has has no real “understanding” of anything. It’s really just a computer model that works out probabilities. It predicts what what’s...

Currently taking part in a self-imposed Writer's Protection Program (AKA break from writing). Too long a story but basically, my dad died earlier in the year which unleashed (some expected) chaos to highjack my time and cloud my brain. I've also...

You live and you unlearn.

Maybe not PhD level, but at least college level, which is pretty good.

Cue the smelling salts.

Oops...forgot about the Huddle rules. Should I have kept that to...um...myself?

It beats onanism, tho' ;) (the things one learns in Huddles)

Have you not read (and I kid you not) Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer by Lola Faust? Why can't dragonflies get some action?

We've got loads of different (though similar) shapes, sizes and colours of dragon flies flitting about over the dregs of the last heavy rain – but I've never seen anything like that! Maybe it's too hot.

Blimey! Weird way of procreation.

I think that’s more than likely - and there are plenty of examples of “AI self-bias” already. The endpoint (at least as far as “Big AI” is concerned) is the total elimination of the human workforce. That, really, is their ultimate monetization...

30yrs and two house moves... which were comedic & hair-raising...