Luis Villa
@luisvilla
I do a lot of opens, at Wikipedia, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and elsewhere.
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Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design | ACM Journal on Responsible Computing
Jonathan Zongdl.acm.org
neo-liberalism succeeded not, or at least not simply, because of Milton Friedman, the Mont Pelerin Society and the rest of it. It came to dominate because it was the only plausible language that people could minimally agree on, at a moment when enormously consequential new policies needed to be enacted.
Henry Farrell • Cybernetics Is the Science of the Polycrisis
I’ve been wrestling an analogy between open licensing’s minimal set of options and the cash-centric/neoliberal minimalism of Homo Economicus. I think this quote unlocks it.
Fairly Trained launches certification for generative AI models that respect creators’ rights — Fairly Trained
fairlytrained.org
My TED Talk is Out!
heathermeeker.com
Note that AI scraping is cited as a driver here.
Making God · EmilyGorcenski.com
emilygorcenski.com
Today Google released Gemini with a 60-page report in which they repeatedly say the training data is key ("We find that data quality is critical to a highly-performing model"), while providing almost no information about how it was made, how it was filtered, or its contents.
CIP and Anthropic launch Collective Constitutional AI — The Collective Intelligence Project
cip.org
CIP’s report on their work with Anthropic