If you are using xz 5.6.1

You should read this

boehs.org/node/everythin…

If anyone looking for the summary on Opensource licensing issues around Redis , Its Linux Foundation Fork Valkey etc , This is the best read

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Thread with possible root cause in Axis cards issue

New term in town

#AIWashing

Oh shit, here we go again.

The short summary

Reminiscent of #bangalore definition of #open

#open washing 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗱 mas.to /

Loud Rant:

I came to know that the surprisingly low WER in #whisper ASR for Malayalam reported in the Hugging Face fine-tuning event last year was just because the evaluation script removed all the vowel signs before computing WER!!! 😡
And the leaderboard now means NOTHING

I read a paper about an LLM for a language, which was trained using a Google translated corpus from English.

The corpus and the model are published as open source too.

Friends in NLP, What would be the consequences of this approach in expanding LLMs to new languages?

Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikifunctions - 'a library of functions' that everyone, everywhere can access and contribute to.

A “function” is a sequence of programming instructions that makes a calculation based on data provided.

wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/12/0…

A complementary chart by Ben Brooks

Not only are open models catching up but increasing access & more from the base models

Open community rocks 👊

1/ We have a new audio generation model that can generate speech in your voice!

Today, we're releasing the Audiobox research paper, demo, and a grant to conduct research with the model.

Paper: ai.meta.com/research/publi…
Demo: audiobox.metademolab.com
Grant: ai.meta.com/research/audio…

Continuing our engagement with the Copyright office on AI issues, we've responded to some comments that Big Tech have made. Software Freedom Conservancy continues to show up to defend your rights regarding copyleft licenses.

You can read our rebuttal here: sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/…

Never forget that Government of India refused to tell the Supreme Court if it used Pegasus, despite the Court directing to make a statement on it several times. And without consequence.

When it gets away once, it will do it again.

That is exactly how impunity works.

It's clear that the govt is trying to deflect attention when it has been accused of illegal spying and hacking into citizens' accounts and phones.

What we need is a law through which to hold intelligence agencies accountable.