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#Meta's Llama 3.1 #AI model has memorized almost the whole first Harry Potter book and can generate large chunks of popular books. It is likely that these works have appeared frequently and in multiple forms within the model's training #data.

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Meta's AI Model 'Memorized' Huge Chunks of Books, Including 'Harry Potter' and '1984'
Researchers found Meta’s popular Llama 3.1 70B has a capacity to recite passages from 'The Sorcerer's Stone' at a rate much higher than could happen by chance.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Jeff Bezos is getting married in Venice this June, and Italian activists are saying: enough.

“Bezos can pay, he can stay—but thousands of shops in Italy have closed because of Amazon,” which is why locals in Venice are not too excited about welcoming him.

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Inside the No Space for Bezos movement: ‘One man rents a city for three days? That’s obscene’
The Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, is about to descend on Venice with his fiancee, some ex-Marines and his limitless credit card. We meet the Italian activists who are saying: enough
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June 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Very excited to share this empathy.ai experience with the catalogue of @gutenberg.org.

Enjoy our newsletter on LinkedIn to read more about the details of the experience and why it blends AI ethics with ethical commerce and the democratisation of knowledge 😌.

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Building on the Legacy of Project Gutenberg with Empathy.ai
Do you know that you can read and download Alice in Wonderland for free online? Maybe you have heard about Project Gutenberg before, an online platform that offers over 70,000 books whose intellectual...
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May 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
#Innovation and #Regulation 🧲

These are terms that we hear a lot in hashtag#AI and that are often presented as opposites... Why is that? 🤔

Ethical considerations do result in regulation... since when is
#ethical a barrier?

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AI Regulation Versus AI Innovation: A Fake Dichotomy | TechPolicy.Press
The fake dichotomy between innovation and regulation obstructs tech advancement, write Fernando Filgueiras, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, and Virgílio Almeida.
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May 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Mavis of Bushey is an independent shop that has been serving the Bushey community for nearly 90 years! 🌞
April 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
What are #PrivateLLMs? How are they more #sustainable?

Enjoy this newsletter where we talk about empathy.ai following the theoretical ethical considerations of LLMs!

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PrivateLLM: Empathy.ai Case Study
In the past years, particularly in this industry, the concept of an LLM has become increasingly more relevant. A Large Language Model, as I'm sure you know, is an AI system designed to understand and ...
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April 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
From the ECA, we love and proudly support ethical online stores like Olivia Selection, whose mission is to offer high quality toys at a competitive price while showing commitment to #sustainable and #fairCommerce. 😍
April 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We love seeing ethical commerce in action! That’s why we celebrate Cowling & Wilcox for their dedicated section of ethical products.

www.cowlingandwilcox.com/381-ethical
April 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
When it comes to AI and technology, Britain wants to seek an economic partnership with the U.S. 🤝

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UK will not change online safety law as part of US trade negotiations
Britain will not make any changes to its Online Safety Act as part of trade negotiations with the United States, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said on Wednesday.
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April 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
April 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
In our latest #ECA Newsletter, we spoke about the concept of Freedom of Speech, from a philosophical perspective, going back to J.S. Mill. 🗣️

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Something Else for Europe and the U.S. to Disagree About: ‘Free Speech’
The two have long been divided on whether speech can be restricted, and when. Under the Trump administration, the gap is widening.
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April 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The #UK government and #Apple are in a legal battle.

The UK government wanted access to Apple's user #data for national security and law enforcement reasons.

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UK government attempt to keep Apple challenge private rejected
Privacy rights campaigners welcome ruling by Investigatory Powers Tribunal
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April 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Bigger social networks have more resources than smaller ones, making it easier for them to grow, while posing a challenge for those emerging. This is called the #network barrier.

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What's next for social media?
Start-up social media firms are looking to capitalise on dissatisfaction with the social media giants.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Children having phones is a social norm which parents in the U.K. are challenging. 💪

Smartphone Free Childhood is a movement that started as a viral WhatsApp group of parents who want their children to have happy childhoods, without smartphones! 😄

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The UK Government Wouldn’t Ban Smartphones in Schools. These Parents Stepped Up.
In Britain, amid growing evidence of harm to young people from extreme content online, a “Smartphone Free Childhood” campaign is going viral.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:23 AM
DeepMind has been holding back the release of its research, pushing for more bureaucracy in the #AI industry.

Will this put the company in a better position in the AI race Will it delay progress for the general good? 🤔

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DeepMind slows down research releases to keep competitive edge in AI race
Google’s AI arm led by Demis Hassabis makes it harder for its researchers to publish studies in major change in approach
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April 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Sharing an advance on the video summary for our latest newsletter! - "The Digital Tyranny" 👀

#AI #AIEthics #EthicalAlliance #EthicalCommerceAlliance #EthicalAlliance
March 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This Friday ( 28th of March) at 10:00 CET 🕰️ :

Empathy.co will host a LinkedIn Live this Friday and will show us how Empathy.ai 's Ocado meal planner, powered by #DeepSeekR1 and DataSapien's Edge-AI while keeping your #data in your hands.

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Smart Eating, Smarter Privacy: Your Health Data, Your Control | LinkedIn
Discover how Empathy.ai’s Ocado meal planner, powered by Deepseek R1, combines with DataSapien’s Edge-AI technology to deliver personalized healthy eating recommendations while keeping your health dat...
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March 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Today we bring this discussion - can free speech absolutism challenge the very notion of individual freedom? Check out this article and let us know what you think! 🤔

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The "Digital Tyranny"
Exploring how the current U.S.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical form of AI that aims to replicate or surpass human-level cognitive abilities across different tasks.

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Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Shoshana Zuboff argued we can either have Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy, not both. 🤔

The E.U is proving to be the democracy that fights the tech oligarchy. 🇪🇺

Will it be successful? What are your thoughts?

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Risking Trump’s Ire, E.U. Accuses Apple and Google of Unfair Practices
European Union regulators said the tech giants likely violated the law by unfairly boxing out smaller competitors, adding to tensions between Europe and the United States.
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March 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Chinese #AI models have been flooding the market.

China has opted for openness, while the U.S has chosen exclusivity. As this Financial Times article states, geopolitics and business rarely go hand in hand with generosity.

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Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models
The pace of Beijing’s open source push has been relentless
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March 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Is AI-generated #art, real art?

Can art that is made with #AI make us humans, feel something? Or does it require of human #subjectivity in its making? 🤔

In other words, is AI a tool or a Maker?

We want to hear your thoughts 💭

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Market changes trader application rules after AI complaints
The Alternative Market in Leeds will ask potential vendors to declare and describe any use of AI.
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March 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#Dataism is the belief that by gathering #data and accumulating information on human behavior, #algorithms can become more powerful and future decisions can be predicted.

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Business school teaching case study: how will companies navigate the promise and threat of dataism?
Using the power of algorithms to inform decisions and create value demands new definitions of the role of management
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March 17, 2025 at 10:13 AM