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Anupam Basu

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Collecting data about stories. Telling stories with data. Book: Shakespeare and Scale Amazon: tinyurl.com/25sentkx Cambridge UP: tinyurl.com/287ff98p

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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Lame has authorised the development of an AI “digital twin”, a regulated artificial intelligence version of himself that can produce content autonomously, in multiple languages and formats." africa.businessinsider.com/local/market...
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From silence to $900m: How TikTok king from Senegal, Khaby Lame, built a global business empire
Senegalese-born TikTok star Khaby Lame has turned viral fame into a $900 million acquisition deal, redefining how creators build scalable global businesses beyond social media
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Football manager gets sacked for relying on ChatGPT for strategy and team selection. www.beinsports.com/en-us/soccer...
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Min Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good. Gift link.
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I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
TIL, competitive spreadsheeting is a thing! www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
What is the fast growing e-sport of competitive Microsoft Excel?
Two co-founders behind the competitive Excel UK chapter explain how the game works.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Palantir takeover happening in the US and UK is astonishing! corporatewatch.org/palantir-in-...
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Palantir in the UK: From the Ministry of Defence to the NHS - Corporate Watch
Palantir have recently been awarded a massive NHS data contract in England. But how did this shady Big Tech company come to power in the UK?
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...
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AI Is Making Big Tech Weaker
Balance sheets and cash flows are showing the strain of AI investments and forcing investors to think about companies differently.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Karp went to do a PhD in neoclassical social theory in Frankfurt. As a Jew, Steinberger says, Karp “wanted to understand how Germany, a pillar of European civilisation, had descended into barbarism.” Palantir’s founding mission was “defending the west” 🙄 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO?
His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#Antropic #AI model resorts to blackmail to avoid being shut down in a stress test. www.cbsnews.com/news/anthrop...
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Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei centered his artificial intelligence brand around safety and transparency. He's determined to figure out the ways AI can be misused to try to mitigate the risks as best Anth...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The #AI bubble makes the BBC front page. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.businessinsider.com/at-an-ai-con...
businessinsider.com
At a top AI conference, 300 attendees were asked which startup they would short.
300 founders and investors in the audience at Cerebral Valley were asked which startup valued at more than a billion dollars they would bet against.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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‘Imagine a Cube Floating in the Air’: The New AI Dream Allegedly Driving Yann LeCun Away from Meta
The legendary AI scientist is reportedly leaving Meta. Here's what we know about why.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann...
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He’s Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong.
Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now he’s convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Only godless heathens worry about #AI's impact!!! 🙄 www.businessinsider.com/palantir-shy...
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Palantir CTO says AI doomerism is driven by a lack of religion
"I think the secularists in Silicon Valley are filling the God-shaped hole in their heart," said Shyam Sankar, Palantir's chief technology officer.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It's board meetings all the way down!
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
So LensKart is about to offer an $8B IPO in India and it's hyping up its claims of #AI based eye testing. Perhaps understandable that he'd want to bandwagon. But alarmingly, there's little mention of either research-based evidence or regulatory approval. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...
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AI biggest trigger for IPO: Lenskart's Bansal - The Times of India
India Business News: Lenskart is preparing for its Dalal Street debut on November 10, aiming for an $8 billion valuation to fund significant AI investments. The SoftBank-b
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"This year 38m farmers received forecasts powered by #AI. Rather than simulateing exactly what is going on in the atmosphere, they make predictions by comparing patterns they see in weather data with previous, similar patterns in the historical weather records." www.economist.com/science-and-...
economist.com
AI models ace their predictions of India’s monsoon rains
Some weather forecasts can now be done on a laptop
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.economist.com/science-and-...
economist.com
China’s chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America’s limits
They are pushing tools to the edge, scaling up and relying on fuzzy maths
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
#India is moving towards legislation for the regulation of #AI generated content. All AI content must be clearly labeled. www.indiatoday.in/india/story/...
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Government plans stricter AI, deepfake rules; proposes platform accountability
The proposed amendments to IT rules provide a clear legal basis for labelling, traceability, and accountability related to synthetically-generated information.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
An entirely #AI rendered Mahabharata. www.telegraphindia.com/entertainmen...
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JioHotstar drops trailer of India’s first AI-generated series ‘Mahabharat: Ek Dharmayudh’
The series will premiere on October 25 and will also air on Star Plus on October 26 at 7.30 pm
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 11/06/2025
Cool reflection on the interpretive circularity of models & texts. We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy. But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
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A slide titled “5 Computational hermeneutics” showing a five-step schematic for comparing how different modeling choices structure meaning. On the right is a numbered list:

Initial representation R

Varying modeling decisions θ₁, θ₂, θ₃

Structuring of signifiers S according to each θ and a difference measure d

Structural difference measure δ

Structuring of modeling decisions relative to S as represented by R

On the left is a drawing of those steps in action:

At step (1), an abstract symbol “R” stands for the starting representation.

At step (2), three funnel-shaped pipelines labeled θᵢ, θⱼ, θₖ branch off from R.

At step (3), each pipeline emits a little triangle of points (s₁, s₂, s₃) arranged differently to show how each θ induces a different structure on signifiers S.

At step (4), arrows from the three point-triangles converge on a central “δ” symbol, indicating computation of pairwise structural differences.

At step (5), the δ measure points back to a small triangle connecting θᵢ, θⱼ, θₖ, showing that difference information is used to re-structure or interpret the modeling decisions themselves.

Below the diagram are two summary sentences:

“The goal of the framework is to enable comparative analyses between the externalized interpretive structures encoded by different models.”
“Need to understand the structural relationships between models by identifying regularities and disparities between how they structure various systems of signifiers.”
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
www.business-standard.com/economy/news...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Cow farts and the economics of #chip production.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The #AI realignment of labor relations is going to be long and difficult. fortune.com/2025/10/14/g...
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Goldman economists on the Gen Z hiring nightmare: ‘Jobless growth’ is probably the new normal | Fortune
“History also suggests that the full consequences of AI for the labor market might not become apparent until a recession hits.”
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Been in the works for a while, but delighted it's finally out in the world, especially in the current political environment. I contributed an essay on the demonization of migrants in early modern England, a phenomenon that bears dispiriting similarities to our time. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic | by Vít Gvoždiak & Martin Zach dailynous.com/2025/09/03/h... #philosophy #public #philsky
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How the Public Sees Philosophy: Insights from a National Survey in the Czech Republic (guest post) - Daily Nous
What do ordinary people think philosophy is for? That's one of the questions a pair of philosophers, Vít Gvoždiak and Martin Zach (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences) aimed to answer. ...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
1/3 Obviously, much of this is spot on! But I'm skeptical of the "seize the means of knowledge production" flourish. That train left when we decided we were okay with universities being basically hedge funds with attached teaching/research units. When it became normal to pay >50k to get an education
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"Al won't save dying languages but community efforts might" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
ft.com
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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How China is challenging Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia?
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Spot the North-American anomaly: only region where social media use is still growing. Great work by the FT’s @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a072... “Have we passed peak social media?”
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The AI representation of the murder victim "speaks from the heart" in court!!! Judge Todd Lang said, "I loved that AI. Thank you for that." He added, "It says something about the family because ... you allowed Chris to speak from his heart." www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g...
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Family shows AI video of slain victim as an impact statement — possibly a legal first
AI experts say this is likely the first time that AI has been used in the U.S. to create an impact statement read by an AI rendering of the deceased victim
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A very thorough, thoughtful analysis of the #AI bubble. blog.siliconroundabout.ventures/p/trillion-d...
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Trillion-Dollar Crash
Why Markets Consistently Misprice Breakthrough Technologies & The Opportunity Beyond The AI Rush
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Interesting survey of #AI research on humor. Should we care if an algorithm "understands" a joke as long as it can classify or even explain it? I think we should, but would have a hard time defending that position because it entails clearly defining understanding. www.ft.com/content/ee51...
ft.com
Why is this funny? And why AI doesn’t know — yet
The longtime New Yorker cartoon ed who turned to writing papers about AI humour
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...
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How AI safety took a backseat to military money
Heidy Khlaaf discusses the industry shift toward military applications and what it means for AI safety.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"One widely cited report ... found that 95% of 52 organizations surveyed had a zero return on their AI initiatives. This suggests AI has yet to make enough impact to raise the economy’s aggregate productivity." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/behi...
wsj.com
Behind Job Weakness Are Hints of a Productivity Revival. Is AI the Reason?
The artificial intelligence investment boom resembles the tech spree that brought a productivity renaissance three decades ago.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The AI data-center bubble. Many reasons this boom is hype-driven, short-sighted, and headed for a crash. www.economist.com/business/202...
economist.com
The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom
How similar is it to the 1990s telecoms bubble?
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The semiconductor arms race. Huawei Ascend GPUs use foreign made component despite US restrictions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Huawei Used TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix Components in Top AI Chips
Huawei Technologies Co. used advanced components from Asia’s largest technology firms in at least some of its leading Ascend AI processors, a research firm discovered during teardowns, highlighting Ch...
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
. @smw.bsky.social joined joined Alix Dunn at “Computer Says Maybe" to discuss the economics of the AI bubble. Even as companies are realizing this tech isn’t as useful as they thought it would be, gov actors are signing lucrative contracts. Watch it on YouTube: youtu.be/WvN1wQ_CBlY
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content. I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye. Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n... And some thoughts 🧵
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"We can’t rely on the goodwill of AI companies to protect user safety. Their market incentives to increase engagement are too strong. Protecting users from predatory chatbots requires making it more profitable for an AI model to be safe than sycophantic." www.wsj.com/opinion/i-ne...
wsj.com
Opinion | I Need a Chatbot That Won’t Drive Me Crazy
It’s no joke. Sycophantic AI models are pushing naive users toward acts of violence and self-harm.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Agree that current AI hype, infrastructure, and valuation are all probably overinflated, and once expectations are brought down to earth, the progress in AI can still be transformative. www.fastcompany.com/91400857/the...
fastcompany.com
There isn’t an AI bubble—there are three
Here's how to capitalize on them.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is actually a quite detailed and nuanced take. But I fear the AI industrial hype machine is AI's worst enemy. Without this zero-sum game of making humans redundant, our reaction to this could have been - wow, isn't it amazing what a #technology about a decade old can already do to assist us?
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Kant make this shit up! Interesting take. I get the critique of neoliberalism and technology, though somewhat reductive. But we should dismiss the other side as simply "stupid" - acting without long-term goals, however misguided - at our own peril. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...
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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Andrew Ng on what China ramping up chip production might mean for AI capabilities -- and Taiwan. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
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AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
If this is true and they are indeed doing this, it is staggeringly impressive but also potentially incredibly dangerous, isn't it? singularityhub.com/2025/09/25/a...
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AI-Designed Viruses Are Replicating and Killing Bacteria
The synthetic viruses can replicate, infect, and destroy bacteria, marking the first step towards an AI-designed life form.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The #AI bubble is keeping the #US #economy afloat. www.techspot.com/news/109626-...
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The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns
According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
There goes that very last shred of privacy. www.kaspersky.co.in/blog/dense-p...
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Human body pose recognition using Wi-Fi signal
Researchers have trained an AI model to detect a person and recognize their pose through Wi-Fi signals, using ordinary routers as both the source and receiver.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Like almost all productive use cases of GenAI, really understanding and being in control of your code is important. Don't leave critical design decisions to AI. sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-...
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The Hidden Costs of Coding With Generative AI
AI coding tools boost productivity in the short term, but hidden technical debt can cripple systems over the long term.
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Anupam Basu @abasu.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Cambridge sent me an email asking to allow #AI agents to use my book on #DH, Shakespeare and Scale, for #LLM training. I know this has caused much debate and outrage, but has anyone argued for why I *should* allow this? Genuinely interested and not trying to stir an already overstirred pot.
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