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  • You don’t have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

    You don’t have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    If you are using Microsoft Office products (most people still do) and not other free and sovereign options you likely received or will another annual increase in subscription fees by 40% this year, in addition to last years similar price rise. ConsumerNZ have a great article exposing that this price increase is actually because your

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  • AI Plagiarism of Māori Data and Storage

    AI Plagiarism of Māori Data and Storage

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    It is a well documented fact in New Zealand and all over the world, that Artificial Intelligence and in particular Large Language Learning Models (LLMs) have been used for student plagiarism in schools, training institutes and universities. Not so well documented are the false notifications that result in innocent students being accused of cheating and

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  • Māori Data Jurisdiction

    Māori Data Jurisdiction

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This research is a follow-on  from my previous article about Data Jurisdiction and why many Māori Data Sovereignty Principles are no longer relevant, in particular this article will look at jurisdiction. The findings of this research show that most Māori (individuals, whānau, hapū, marae, Māori Tech company and Iwi) with a web site, email and

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  • IAAP 2024 Resource List

    IAAP 2024 Resource List

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    References used by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru in the presentation “Indigenous Privacy Perspectives from Aotearoa/New Zealand” at the IAAP ANZ Summit 2024 Melbourne Conference.   References DIA Facial Recognition trial report obfuscate risks to Māori. Te Kete o Karaitiana Taiuru Blog. November 7, 2024 URL: https://taiuru.co.nz/dia-facial-recognition-trial-report-obfuscate-risks-to-maori/   AI expert concerned ‘no Māori with moko’ used in

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  • Facial Recognition trial report obfuscates risks to Māori

    Facial Recognition trial report obfuscates risks to Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), commissioned an independent Facial Recognition Trial of their Identity Check system using DIA passport face images to test against. Buried in the report was high probability of bias against Māori. DIA now say they will further test after asked by media in relation to this article. The

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  • Inconsistencies with Facial Recognition Trial

    Inconsistencies with Facial Recognition Trial

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI) controversially started a Facial Recognition Trial in their stores for what they claimed to provide more protection to their staff. There are mountains of research and cases of innocent people of colour being falsely identified by Facial Recognition Technologies, false arrests, being identified as gorillas etc. In April this year, the

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  • Te Ao Māori perspective of Privacy with DNA

    Te Ao Māori perspective of Privacy with DNA

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Many Māori and others have submitted the DNA samples via web sites such as Ancestory.com and 23andMe to ascertain their whakapapa, many without realising the cultural and privacy issues of doing so. Most often, you are giving away your rights to your own DNA that has all of your information about you and your ancestors. From

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  • Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    Treatment of Māori language in language modelling

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This is my contribution as a critical Indigenous Researcher to the Nature Journal’s article “Increasing the presence of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) researchers in computational science”  regarding language revitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, along with many other international voices. The Māori language was banned by native schools and other government led assimilation practices in

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  • X (Formerly Twitter) is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15

    X (Formerly Twitter) is allowing 3rd parties to train AI on its data starting Nov 15

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Earlier this week X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. Thanks to TechCrunch who first published the details. If you have already locked down your Twitter Privacy, there appears no change. This is a timely reminder that your posts

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  • Demise of the io domain name

    Demise of the io domain name

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The dot io domain name is a common General Top Level Domain Name (GTLD) for many tech companies, but also for some Māori groups in part for the tech abbreviation for input/output but also as it is the name of a disputed Māori deity called Io. The dot io domain is assigned to a country

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  • Māori and Iwi investments in NZ data centres

    Māori and Iwi investments in NZ data centres

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    In the past month, we saw for the first time, a major Iwi, Ngāti Toa announce their investment into one of New Zealand’s many geographically located data centres, while also a Trans-Tasman Indigenous regional edge datacentre provider Gambarra Kaha announced that they have expanded operations to New Zealand with a sole Māori Director. Both announcements

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  • Cross-agency survey of use cases for Artificial Intelligence

    Cross-agency survey of use cases for Artificial Intelligence

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) released results of the 2024 cross-agency survey of use cases for artificial intelligence (AI). The results are not surprising when read and considered in conjunction with Aotearoa New Zealand business surveys and privacy perceptions of AI by the Aotearoa New Zealand public. Of surprise though, is the guidance discriminates

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  • First New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI

    First New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    According toRadioNZ article, ACC is the first New Zealand government agency to trial Generative AI over the past year using Microsoft’s Copilot in tests. This article covers the key points and looks at the benefits and risks to Māori. Key points from the article: Most importantly and most reassuring is the government’s chief digital officer

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  • Māori and First Nations Australia musicians views of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Māori and First Nations Australia musicians views of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    New Zealand and Australian musicians were surveyed about their views of Artificial Intelligence and its impacts on their music, in addition Māori and Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders were segmented out creating a unique Indigenous Peoples perspective of AI and their music. The report AI and Music market development of AI in the music sector

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  • How AI can help Indigenous language revitalisation, and why data sovereignty is important

    How AI can help Indigenous language revitalisation, and why data sovereignty is important

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Using the interview with Michael Running Wolf at https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7290740 , I offer some commentary and key warnings for Māori language that I am already seeing occurring here in Aotearoa New Zealand.   “Indigenous language experts working in computer science say Artificial Intelligence is a useful tool in language revitalization but communities must prioritize the ownership

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  • Jurisdictional Māori Data Sovereignty introduction

    Jurisdictional Māori Data Sovereignty introduction

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    One of the 6 principals of  Māori Data Sovereignty refers to jurisdictional considerations, or the requirement to store Māori data in New Zealand when appropriate. Jurisdictional considerations for Māori Data should include Māori Data that is tapu (sacred or sensitive) including not limited to: genetic data,  personal health data and other private data about individuals,

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  • The Phantom Article 4 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    The Phantom Article 4 of Te Tiriti o Waitangi

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article debunks the false narrative that Te Tiriti o Waitangi has a hidden or overlooked Article 4 that gave Māori the right to religious freedom. Despite all political parties agreeing there is no Article 4, that Article 4 is not mentioned in any Waitangi Tribunal Reports and is not a part of any of

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  • ChatGPT and its gender bias with te reo Māori

    ChatGPT and its gender bias with te reo Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article looks at the gender bias with Māori language translations using the non gender specific pronoun in the Māori language ‘ia’. There is a significant amount of historical and recent research with, but not limited to Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, or LLMs containing various biases including against females and

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