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AI hype is encouraging bad data practices

And this could be just the start of it

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Mahdi Assan
Mar 29, 2024
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The data-hungry generative models dominating the current AI hype are having stark negative impacts on data rights.

Constructing the training datasets relies on two main data acquisition methods. One is scraping data from the internet, and the other is repurposing user data previously collected for other purposes.1

But the current AI hyp…

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