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The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data

TechCrunch

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. All rights reserved.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

TechCrunch

The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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Article: Testing Machine Learning: Insight and Experience from Using Simulators to Test Trained Functionality

InfoQ Culture Methods

The data used in training is where the functionality is ultimately defined, and that is where you will find your issues and bugs. When testing machine learning systems, we must apply existing test processes and methods differently. By Martin Karsberg

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OpenAI defeats news outlets’ copyright lawsuit over AI training, for now

Ooda Loop

A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models.

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What was your favorite article of the year? What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year? And… Our Most Popular Leadership Article of All Time.

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Article: Thoughtfully training SRE apprentices: Establishing Padawan and Jedi matches

InfoQ Culture Methods

This article shares how Padawans and Jedis can inspire and teach us how to help people of a wide variety of backgrounds, ages, and experience levels to observe and understand failures in production. It covers practical lessons learned and shares how you can create and rollout a program for SRE Apprentices within your organization.

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How the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business Review

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs.

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