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“Parade” understands that America’s original sin — slavery and the economic apparatus that sanctioned the dehumanization of groups deemed as “other” — can’t be divorced from Leo’s story.

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This soul-gnawing anxiety is not original sin in the Christian sense, even if it functions in much the same way.

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For almost all of them, the original sin of this government was the decision on winter fuel.

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Times Festival of Books, ‘Wicked’ director Jon M. Chu said the entertainment industry moved on too quickly from generative AI’s ‘original sin’ of gathering training data.

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But Chu said he believes the entertainment industry has been too lax about tech companies’ ethically questionable training methods since the advent of generative AI, calling the unauthorized use of Hollywood creations an “original sin.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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