#513 - Writers Object to IMDA Using Their Works to Train AI & No More Trishaws for Singapore?

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

• Singaporean writers object to IMDA using their works to train a large language model
• $70m S’pore AI initiative to develop first large language model with South-east Asian context
• IMDA’s Preliminary Survey on Gen AI Research
• Opinion: IMDA Must Uphold Authors’ and Publishers’ Intellectual Property Rights — Singapore Unbound
• Books3 dataset, used to train AI, contains works stolen from Singaporean authors
• Pulitzer-winning authors join OpenAI, Microsoft copyright lawsuit | Reuters
• New York Times denies OpenAI's 'hacking' claim in copyright fight | Reuters
• SEA-LION - AI Singapore
• A.I. is B.S. | Adam Conover
• The Cyberattack Stopped by a Microsoft Engineer Was Scarier Than We Realize

No More Trishaws for Singapore?

• No more trishaw rides in Singapore after last licensed operator ceased tours mid-2023

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