Luis Villa
@luisvilla
I do a lot of opens, at Wikipedia, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and elsewhere.
lu.isLuis Villa
Data Futures Lab - Mozilla Foundation
foundation.mozilla.org
There’s a hard coming problem about what it means for dominant platforms to allow fair and reasonable competition. In AI, it’s going to center around access to data. Here, there’s an interesting passage on when/how Apple will allow competing app stores.
Older piece on thinking through what it means to have “openness” in automated decision-making.
it always astonishes me that the New York Times feels the need to store a document considerably larger than War and Peace on my phone. It also astonishes me this document only has one subject – how to target online ads to Dan Davies – and that nonetheless, the New York Times isn’t very good at that.
to the vector belong the spoils
The lack of acknowledgment of the threat of prompt injection attacks in this new Purple Llama initiative from Meta AI Is baffling to me
Simon Willisontwitter.comBuilding Open Models Responsibly in the Gemini Era
opensource.googleblog.com
I appreciate the attention to detail here, and it’s generally a really careful, thoughtful post, but you then throw away pretty much all the good effort by settling on a term that the vast majority of people are not going to be able to tell apart from open source. “publicly available”, “free to use”… lots of other, non-confusing options right there.