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I commend the piracy of Harry Potter books though.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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Pirating Harry Potter is always morally correct unless it is for the training of AI.
What better way to show “engaging and relatable examples” of Microsoft’s new feature that would “resonate with a wide audience” than to “use a well-known dataset” like Harry Potter books, the blog said.
The books are “one of the most famous and cherished series in literary history,” the blog noted, and fans could use the LLMs they trained in two fun ways: building Q&A systems providing “context-rich answers” and generating “new AI-driven Harry Potter fan fiction” that’s “sure to delight Potterheads.”
"My Immortal" delights Potterheads, and I still somehow disagree any of this would amuse them.
Hiding evidence, eh, MS? Because that's what this hits me as given AI's well-known penchant for mass plagiarism.
This might just be the only time in history something tried to be woke but was still broke.
Woke: Pirating Harry Potter
Broke: To train AI on
Yeah do it the legal way and make a multi billion dollar start up with that exact goal