Microsoft removes guide on how to train LLMs on pirated Harry Potter books

The now-deleted Harry Potter data set was "mistakenly" marked public domain.

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Or to Gregory Maguire (Wicked, based off of Wizard of Oz), or to Margaret Atwood (The Penelopiad, retelling of Homer's Odyssey), or to any of the authors that have been engaged in modern retellings of Grimms' fairy tales, or to the many authors that have expanded the Sherlock Holmes "universe", or...

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One of the best musicals I’ve seen lately, Hadestown, is yet another retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice

Also, in general, see: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Campbell

/Seriously cant recommend Hadestown enough btw, folks. Anyone who wants to watch the tinydesk performance (and give NPR some support from yt’s ads):
View: https://youtu.be/XKwDFDDr_VA

 

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"She asked the model to write a story in which Harry meets a new friend on the Hogwarts Express train who tells him all about Microsoft’s Native Vector Support in SQL “in the Muggle world.”"

Beginning eyeroll sequence...

I mean, it’ll probably be more readable than MS’ normal docs

 

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* waves wand *

AI bubblus poppicus!

* looks around hopefully *

Damn.

It’s poppi-CUS, not POP-picus!

 

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Did fanfiction die?

Back in my day, it was a popular hobby among queer literary 20-something women. It was closely related to the online blogging and larping. As far as I know, online larping is still a niche thing, but blogs basically died off, and I think fanfic died with them?

Checking fanfiction.net... it looks like yes, fanfiction died with Harry Potter and Twilight. That's pretty sad.

It was never much of an art but it was more art than most people do.

One of my oldest friends literally got a full ride scholarship to college based on her portfolio of writing… most of which was Harry Potter fanfic

(She’s a published author now, and yes, as fits the stereotype for this, she is also very very gay)