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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Or to offer use of models that explicitly state no training / fine tuning (usually they say ‘improving’) with sent prompts / responses. Google Gemini has t&cs along those lines for API use, I bet others do too.

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If in doubt, unless you see written policy otherwise, assume your data will be used by OpenAI to train their models.

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Looks good but just to advise some caution - because it is using commercial inference providers like OpenAI there’s no transparency there about the downstream t&cs about using your data and the responses for training or fine tuning those commercial models. And those vary from provider to provider.

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Yes! There are loads of open models with very promising results and huge potential for collections data work. I can list a bunch here if it’s useful or we could talk on Teams some time… I am about to start experimenting with them on our new NVIDIA H-100

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Saw it last night and loved it - thank you for the steer!

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thanks - I was debating whether to give that a try, I’ll do it

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

1/5. "I always hoped there would be dogs" announces David Niven when he thinks he's died and done to heaven in A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (#PowellAndPressburger, 1946). Powell was a dog lover and his 2 golden cocker spaniels, Erik and Spangle, had cameos in a number of his films.

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Film Cyber Security Job Klaxon! Come and work in the British Film Institute and help us to protect our mission and the collections in the #BFINationalArchive from the threats of cyber attack - a new Head of Cyber Security role - closing date Monday 9th of December

bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This is so useful James, thanks very much! I am going to copy your methods…..

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Denny Fischer @df-sec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

That's a Cybersecurity Advisory worth reading, with many important points to note. Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization www.cisa.gov/news-events/... #infosec #blueteam

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Enhancing Cyber Resilience: Insights from CISA Red Team Assessment of a US Critical Infrastructure Sector Organization | CISA

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

James I’ve not done much in the way of lists and feeds yet, what would you recommend as an approach to it?

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Christopher Penn @cspenn.com · 22/11/2024

For those interested, I made a GPT that can evaluate Terms of Service agreements and tell you if the content you're uploading to a service is at risk of being used to train AI models. Just give it a URL: chatgpt.com/g/g-67410323...

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Oh wow! I need to look at more daschund photos obviously

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Beautiful spaniel! Sprocker? Here’s our Sprocker Truffle

Brown Sprocker spaniel sitting on arm chair in sunlight

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

That record changed my brain. RIP.

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Meet Tülu 3, a set of state-of-the-art instruct models with fully open data, eval code, and training algorithms. We invented new methods for fine-tuning language models with RL and built upon best practices to scale synthetic instruction and preference data. Demo, GitHub, paper, and models 👇

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vb @reach-vb.hf.co · 20/11/2024

🚨 UPDATE: New Whisper based model competing with Nvidia on Open ASR Leaderboard! 🔥 CrisperWhisper aims to transcribe every spoken word exactly as it is, including fillers, pauses, stutters and false starts Whisper Large V3 fine-tune - beats it by roughly ~1 WER margin ⚡ hf.co/spaces/hf-au...

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

For #WorldTelevisionDay here’s how we preserve U.K. telly from videotape at the #BFINationalArchive and make it available in the BFI Mediatheque in London blog.bfi.org.uk/knowledge-an...

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Week 1: 12-19 November 2024 – BFI’s ten-year strategy

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Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My next book, Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory comes out in just a few weeks (December 10th!) with @hopkinspress.bsky.social. It'll be open access. Can't wait to share it all with you. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Anton Walbrook would like to let you know that the glorious Technicolor restoration of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943) by @thefilmfoundation.bsky.social is now available on BBC iPlayer www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Here's a useful tool for Bluesky Type your account name in and activate It will come up with a list of the accounts followed by the people you follow.. If you type in your password it will give that list with an optional follow button to make life easy. Try it 💙💙 bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

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Bluesky Network Analyzer

Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks for reminder, just bought it now...

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Erm, I LoVeD Voyage… hoping to go again once I pay off the first tickets…

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I could not be happier to announce that I have curated a season of Luchino Visconti's works, featuring a 4k restoration of my favourite, Rocco and his Brothers, for January 2025. More than half of the films will be screening on 35mm at BFI Southbank. More info here: www.bfi.org.uk/news/luchino...

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Next our new project to preserve the born-digital document archives of two amazing British filmmakers Gurinder Chadha and Amma Asante www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/bl...

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SIPping from the fount of collective knowledge - Digital Preservation Coalition

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Marc Alexander @mga.is · 07/11/2024

Thought-provoking laptop sticker given out for World Digital Preservation Day #wdpd2024 at Senate House in London today

Laptop sticker from the Digital Preservation Coalition saying “storage is not preservation”

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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

And now ... I get to declare World Digital Preservation Day officially open! Woohoo! Blogging by me celebrating the communities we work in and the commuinities we work for... www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/op...

Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Off topic a bit from #digipres but I’d recommend following @simonwillison.net - the best guide through the exciting but daunting forests of LLM technology, not to mention creator of Datasette

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Stephen McConnachie @mcnatch.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Quite a busy moment in BFI timespace! I now have a quote from Christopher Nolan for use in #digipres discussions - wish I'd got him to sign a hard copy printout for authentication purposes...

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