This week, some local writers voiced their objections to the Infocomm Media Development Authority’s (IMDA) plans to build a South-east Asia-focused large language model (LLM), even though a consultation via a survey within the local writing community is still ongoing. Why the outrage over this seemingly innocuous survey? Elsewhere, it was revealed that Singapore’s last trishaw operator had halted tours as early as last year, due to the unavailability of a site to store the trishaws. Are we about to lose this piece of Singapore transport history?
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Writers Object to IMDA Using Their Works to Train AI
No More Trishaws for Singapore?
One Shiok Comment
One Shiok Thing
Mics and Headphones from @shure
Chairs from @ergotunechair
Desk from @castlerysg
Edited and mixed by Tristen Yeak
