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Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books


Microsoft pulled a year-old blog post this week after a Hacker News thread flagged that it had encouraged developers to download all seven Harry Potter books from a Kaggle dataset -- incorrectly marked as public domain -- and use them to train AI models on the company's Azure platform. The blog, w...

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