The biggest issue with generative AI, at least to me, is the fact that it's trained using human-made works where the original authors didn't consent to or even know that their work is being used to train the AI. Are there any initiatives to address this issue? I'm thinking something like an open source AI model and training data store that only has works that are public domain and highly permissive no-attribution licenses, as well as original works submitted by the open source community and explicitly licensed to allow AI training.

I guess the hard part is moderating the database and ensuring all works are licensed properly and people are actually submitting their own works, but does anything like this exist?

They're trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an "essential service" and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn't even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. "How could they do this to Canada? Can't they just accept working like slaves? It's an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they're the problem!" No mention of what the union's actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It's a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that's not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don't know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

I'm currently running Deepseek on Linux with Ollama (installed via curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh), and I specifically have to run it on my personal file server because it's the only computer in the house with enough memory for the larger models. Since it's running on the same system that has direct access to all my files, I'm more concerned about security than I would be if it was running on a dedicated server that just does AI. I'm really not knowledgeable on how AI actually works at the execution level, and I just wanted to ask whether Ollama is actually private and secure. I'm assuming it doesn't send my prompts anywhere since everything I've read lists that as the biggest advantage, but how exactly is the AI being executed on the system when you give it a command like ollama run deepseek-r1:32b and have it download files from where it's downloading from by default? Is it just downloading a regular executable and running that on the system, or is it more sandboxed than that? Is it possible for a malicious AI model to scan my files or do other things on the computer?

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Man dead after being shot by police at Toronto's Pearson airport

Police were attempting to resolve dispute before man produced gun: Peel police chief

CBC News · Posted: Apr 24, 2025 7:59 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Investigators survey the scene after Peel police shot and killed a man outside Terminal 1 at Toronto’s Pearson airport on Thursday morning. (Evan Mitsui/CBC) Social Sharing

A man is dead after being shot by Peel police at Toronto Pearson's Terminal 1 Thursday morning.

The shooting happened shortly before 7 a.m. after police received a call from a member of the public about a dispute involving two or three people, Peel police Chief Nishan Duraiappah said. The group knew each other and was there "for the purposes of travel," he said.

Three officers responded to the call. Police had been attempting to mediate the dispute for around 10 minutes when the man abruptly took out a firearm and pointed it at an officer, he said.

Kristy Denette, the spokesperson for the province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU), told reporters the man did not fire his weapon at police, adding it's unclear whether he pointed the weapon at the officers.

Two of the officers fired at the man, the SIU said, correcting its earlier release that said three officers opened fire. The man, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene, it added.

The man was "in distress" and had been in an SUV at Terminal 1 departures, but the shooting happened outside the vehicle, the SIU said.

Denette said some family members were present at the time of the shooting, and the SUV had a child's booster seat inside.

No police officers were injured and a post-mortem exam for the man is scheduled for Friday morning, the SIU said.

The shooting "is an isolated incident and there are no known threats to public safety," Peel police said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Asked about the shooting at an unrelated event Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called it unacceptable.

"What's the world coming to? You go to the airport and there's shootings happening," he said.

In an update to media on Thursday, Ontario's Special Investigations Unit said the man was "in distress" and produced a weapon but didn't fire it before being shot dead by police at Pearson airport.

Peel paramedics responded to the scene around 6:56 a.m., a spokesperson confirmed.

Duraiappah called the shooting a "tragic incident" and said it was not an attack on the airport.

"There was nothing that was compromising the airport operations," he said.

Police have body camera footage of the incident and are cooperating fully with the SIU's investigation, he said.

Duraiappah said there was a large police presence on scene, along with SIU investigators.

The SIU is an independent agency that investigates the conduct of police officers in incidents across Ontario that may have resulted in death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm or allegations of sexual assault.

Witness saw man bleeding, officer performing CPR

Danilo Simic told CBC News he had just dropped off a friend at the airport and was planning his route home to Hamilton when he heard 10 or more loud bangs.

"Right away I thought, this can't be a car's loud exhaust. This is something different, something that I haven't heard before," he said.

A man who was at Toronto's Pearson airport at the time of a police-involved shooting Thursday recounts hearing multiple gunshots before seeing police performing CPR on an injured man.

Simic said he ducked in his car, assuming the noises were gunshots. Everyone around him "came to a standstill," he said.

Two police cruisers soon sped past him, he said.

As Simic drove away, he saw a man lying on the ground bleeding from his torso and his head. An officer was giving the man CPR, he said.

Police were also holding back a woman from the scene, Simic said.

Another witness, Jake Seymour, said he was outside on the airport's lower level when the shooting happened.

He said he heard multiple shots, then went to the top floor to see if he could offer first aid. First responders were already there, he said in a direct message to CBC Toronto.

Seymour said exits in the area were blocked off. The scene that was taped off wasn't on the roadway where passengers immediately exited the airport, but rather the secondary roadway closer to the airport's parking garage, he said.

Grey SUV on scene with several evidence markers

Images from the scene showed a heavy police presence with several Peel Regional Police vehicles parked outside the massive three-level terminal building that's the hub of Air Canada's operations and most major international flights.

CBC News crews spotted at least a dozen police cars en route to the departures area of Terminal 1.

Police cordoned off a section of the road outside Terminal 1, where a grey car with its trunk open sat near several evidence markers. (Darek Zdzienicki/CBC)

One image from the scene showed a grey Jeep Cherokee in a section of the road that's been cornered off with police tape. There were several white evidence markers on the ground behind the vehicle, which had its trunk open.

The SIU confirmed this was the vehicle involved in the shooting.

A number of passengers were seen wheeling their suitcases between police cruisers with their lights flashing while making their way into Terminal 1.

Travellers at Pearson have been left scrambling after a police-involved shooting snarled operations at the Toronto airport. CBC's Dale Manucdoc has the latest on the investigation.

Roads closed, routes affected near airport

Pearson airport said flights were operating normally on Thursday despite the police investigation.

The road to Terminal 1 departures was closed, but has since reopened, the airport says.

Highway 409 to Terminal 1 departures was closed due to a police investigation, Ontario Provincial Police said in a post on X.

A 30-year-old man died Thursday morning after being shot by Peel police officers outside Toronto's Pearson International Airport, the province's Special Investigations Unit said. (CBC)

The 900 Airport Express bus was detouring via Terminal 3 due to police activity, but service has since resumed, the Toronto Transit Commission said.

Service on the UP Express appeared to be unaffected.

With files from Linda Ward and Kirthana Sasitharan