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A 39-year-old NT Department of Children and Families employee has been charged with using her position to defraud the National Disability Insurance Scheme of millions of dollars.
The AFP alleges in her public servant role Genevine Ifunanya Ebelebe referred "vulnerable" people to an NDIS business she co-owned with 47-year-old Kingsley Ebelebe, who was charged with fraud in February.
"Her eldest child has significant disability, she is the primary carer for that child," he said.
He said Ms Ebelebe had already proactively handed in her Australian and Nigerian passports and he understood there were still ongoing investigations "as to other parties".
Darwin public servant charged with multi-million-dollar fraud of NDIS
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They’re Free of AI Slop
404 Media: “ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing. “The world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is “the world’s largest book database,” and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. “Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate.
Dense, edited, authoritative.” In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don’t include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in “model collapse,” a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors.
The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models. As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they are guaranteed to be free of the very AI slop AI companies are producing.
The world’s best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ISBNdb, a company that produces what it claims is “the world’s largest book database,” and that offers high-volume book acquisition services for AI companies, says on its site. “Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” In one article on its site, ISBNdb explains that printed books published before 2022 are ideal for AI training data because they don’t include AI generated text. As the article correctly notes, much of the data that AI companies can scrape from the internet today is likely to include AI generated text, which could result in “model collapse,” a process by which AI models that are trained on AI generated data results in worse models that are more prone to errors. The article also notes that book authors who object to their writing being scraped for training purposes can now easily poison AI models by producing writing designed to manipulate and sabotage the resulting AI models.
