How the University of Michigan Is Selling Student Data to Train AI

REUTERS/Rebecca CookThe University of Michigan has allegedly sold 85 hours of audio recordings from various academic settings including lectures, interviews, office hours, study groups, and student presentations to third parties for the purposes of training artificial intelligence. The school has also sold a dataset of 829 academic papers from students to help fine tune large language models (LLMs) as well.It is unclear whether those included in the data consented to having their audio and texts

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