Provide opt-out after the fact. To operate in good faith, manual opt-out requests should also be respected after the fact too. Because the dataset format allows users to bypass and override opt-out client side, not honoring request makes LAION look complicit in infringement.
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Dataset sourcing and ethical image attribution in AI
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Have the dataset to include sources. Each image was referenced by a specific page, and this original root URL should be included as a field. By "hot linking" files directly that could be on CDNs, it bypasses usual access mechanisms & prevents reliably checking opt-out status.
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LAION Dataset Compliance: Robots.txt Verification Ethics
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Check opt-out themselves! LAION relies on the fact that CommonCrawl allegedly checked opt-out, but the legal defense "our upstream provider is compliant so we don't need to be" isn't strong. Instead, LAION could have checked robots.txt themselves when creating the dataset.
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OpenAI Releases o1 Model With Advanced Reasoning Capabilities
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… and now it's out https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Fine-tuned o1 Achieves Gold Medal in IOI Programming Competition
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screenshot of eval results in the tweet above and more in the blog post, but worth especially noting: a fine-tuned version of o1 scored at the 49th percentile in the IOI under competition conditions! and got gold with 10k submissions per problem.
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OpenAI Releases o1: Advanced Reasoning Model with Notable Limitations
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here is o1, a series of our most capable and aligned models yet: https://
openai.com/index/learning
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OpenAI Develops Internal Voice Capability for AI Thinking
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Some people have an internal voice when they think. OpenAI is now catching up to you.
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OpenAI Releases O1 Model with Advanced Reasoning Capabilities
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as i was saying…
OpenAI released a new AI model that can perform some human-like reasoning tasks https://
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
2024-09-12/openai-releases-o1-model-with-reasoning-capabilities?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter
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Neural Operators Win Blavatnik Award for AI Science
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Honored to be a Blavatnik Award finalist. I want to thank my @Caltech team and collaborators. This award represents the team's efforts. We have been working in AI+Science before it went mainstream. Our Neural Operators have revolutionized scientific modeling, including creating
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OpenAI unveils Q-Star/Strawberry, releases GPT-1o with PhD-level math
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Q-Star/Strawberry project was just unveiled by OpenAI GPT-1o is available to select ChatGPT Plus users starting today The text-only chatbot exhibits PhD level intelligence on benchmark tests and dominates at mathematics: