Open Source AI and the Paradox of Open – Open Future
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Open Source AI and the Paradox of Open – Open Future
Open systems – free speech, democracy, open content, open science – will sometimes produce results we do not like. That openness, of course, will be used by the powerful as well as the powerless. There will be cruel speech, bad democratic decisions and uses of openly licensed content with which we disagree. Thus, it is very easy to blame openness. ... See more
James Boyle • Misunderestimating openness – Open Future
establishing transparency as a principle that increases the social value of these systems and democratizes these technologies.
How Wikipedia can shape the future of AI – Open Future
To the extent that large language models (and I should note that while I’m focusing on image generation, there are a whole host of companies working on text output as well) are dependent not on carefully curated data, but rather on the Internet itself, is the extent to which AI will be democratized, for better or worse.
Ben Thompson • The AI Unbundling
New technologies and labour-saving processes can be good things: the problem is who owns the technology required for these processes and in whose interest that technology is developed and run.