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Backlash and Deletion
Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics argued encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books for training AI models subsequently used to generate content.
The incident highlights tensions around data sourcing practices in AI development.
Author and Blog Details
The blog, archived here, was written in November 2024 by Pooja Kamath, a senior product manager who has been with Microsoft for more than a decade and remains employed there.
In 2024, Microsoft tasked Kamath with promoting a new feature that simplifies adding generative AI capabilities to applications using just a few lines of code with Azure SQL DB, LangChain, and LLMs.
What better way to show engaging and relatable examples of Microsoft’s new feature that would resonate with a wide audience than to use a well-known dataset like Harry Potter books.
Further Reading
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