Judgment reserved in Mbalula contempt case over raw data dispute
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What happened
5k views Judgment reserved in Mbalula contempt case over raw data dispute 7k views Feroz Khan flagged as an outlier over R3m external income: Fikeni 3. Image Credits : X | @MbalulaFikile SABC News 18 September 2026, 18:00 [SAST] Judgment has been reserved in the High Court at KuGompo City in the application filed by ANC member Lwazi Rotya to have ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula declared in contempt of court. Rotya alleges that Mbalula failed to comply with the court order to release raw data.
Rotya alleges that Mbalula failed to comply with the court order to release raw data from Branch General Meetings held in preparation for the interdicted ANC Provincial Elective Conference. Mbalula’s legal representative, Advocate Yusuf Saloojee, maintained that they have complied with the court’s ruling by making the raw data available. Destroying their own supply chainMicrosoft is quoted as admitting that “LLMs are a product that destroys its own supply chain” because it’s a substitute for its own training data in many cases.
The reason they want to obtain the data is that they suspect there were incidents of manipulation of processes, ID harvesting and fraudulent activities during these BGMs.
The wider picture
The applicants in this matter have argued that the ANC, led by Mbalula, failed to adhere to a court decision. They claim they attempted to obtain the raw data but were sent from pillar to post. Raw data, the use of the word, the adjective wrong, is not coincidental. We are saying, we want the raw data as it came from the branches, unadulterated, unedited, unprocessed by anyone. The matter against Mbalula comes as the Provincial Secretary of the party in the province, Lulama Ngcukayitobi, threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against him.
Weekend reports reveal that Mbalula allegedly blamed Ngcukayitobi for the party’s failure to submit candidate lists to the IEC in some municipalities in the province. 4k views EFF opens case against Ngizwe Mchunu over alleged shooting 2. Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times’ case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning.
What has been reported
The companies’ own documentation warned that it was starting a “doom loop” that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the “largest theft of labor in human history,” and that it made a “complete mockery of the idea of fair use. ”Many of the most eye-catching quotes from the document come from Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht. Microsoft spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Verge that “These comments reflect one employee’s individual perspective, are not a legal analysis, and do not represent the company’s views. ”In a separate court filing, Jordan Usdan, GM for Data Strategy and Ops at Microsoft AI, characterized Hecht’s role as adversarial.
He said that Hecht “holds divergent, academic, and forward-looking views about how data ecosystems for AI should operate and is employed at Microsoft to bring asymmetrical, futuristic, and academic points of view … nor is he someone who speaks for Microsoft specifically as to his theoretical views on AI’s potential effect on content creators. ”But whether or not Microsoft wants to own these comments, it’s clear that this came true. Hecht calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use. ’”It’s a “doom loop”Satya Nadella admits that chatbots have basically replaced search and removed the need to go straight to the source for info.
Paywall shmaywallDespite Nadella later being quoted as saying, “anything that is paywalled should be licensed,” An OpenAI representative admitted that he was “unaware” of any effort to detect or remove paywalled content from training data. “Insanely good at regurgitation”Internally, it seems that OpenAI was well aware of ChatGPT’s tendency to simply reproduce copyrighted material “verbatim. ” Even though it acknowledged that the “prevention of memorization” was important to “minimize copyright violations,” employees admitted that GPT-4 “memorized a ton of data and therefore will be insanely good at regurgitation. ”The filing then goes on to cite several examples of ChatGPT outputting long strings of copy straight from articles in the Times, Mercury News, The Denver Post, LifeHacker, and Eurogamer in response to queries.
Microsoft spokesperson Haurek cautioned that “Satya’s testimony and Microsoft’s position in this case are perfectly consistent. Legal representative for the applicants, Adv Dali Mpofu, says his applicants have maintained that party processes were never followed when these Branch General Meetings were held.
What happens next
An excel spreadsheet is, by definition, processed information. So, you (can’t) now give us some edited version where you’ve doctored. What you allege in your founding affidavit, we complied with,” argued Mpofu. That the inspection was not what you had thought it was. You were allowed to inspect, and that is it,” he said. MOST READ EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi fired 8. 8k views PSC’s Somadoda Fikeni to take the stand at Madlanga Commission 7.
The report has been compiled by The Daily Waves using information reported across sabcnews.com, theverge.com. Details are presented according to the information available at the time of publication and may change as authorities, organisers or other relevant parties provide updates.