Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright... Continue reading >> [ Source: O'Reilly Radar | 2024-06-18 12:58:16 UTC ]
IN THE SPRING OF 1917, after three years of fighting a war on two fronts, Germany came up with a daring and unlikely plan to destabilize Russia. It made a backroom deal to transport Vladimir Lenin and a small group of exiled radicals from Switzerland to Petrograd in the hope of fomenting a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-12-07 18:00:07 UTC ]
In a crop of thoughtful new books, scholars untangle the historical roots of racism, trying to understand why America still struggles with its original sin and to discover paths to healing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jim Wallis argues that current racial tensions are embedded in deep, unresolved, systemic sins such as slavery and racism in his book ‘America’s Original Sin.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, Sally Mann's amazing memoir, original sin, and the latest from Anne Enright. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I'm sorry. Our intentions were good."Ethan Zuckerman, the current director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, recently published a heck of an essay in the Atlantic called "The Internet's Original Sin." In it, he deconstructs the good (or at least neutral!) intentions, that turned the Internet... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]