Luis Villa
@luisvilla
I do a lot of opens, at Wikipedia, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and elsewhere.
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CIP and Anthropic launch Collective Constitutional AI — The Collective Intelligence Project
CIP’s report on their work with Anthropic
- 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.
from Cybernetics Is the Science of the Polycrisis by Henry Farrell
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.
Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous
Making God · EmilyGorcenski.com
How to Think About Remedies in the Generative AI Copyright Cases
Can provenance save us from a barrage of synthetic media?
“participants successfully identified manipulated media as less trustworthy and less accurate when provenance was disclosed.”
Weaving Pathways for Justice with GPT: LLM-driven automated drafting of interactive legal applications
- The most salient reason neoclassical economics became dominant in policy circles is that it was allied with a general revanchist business interest squeezed by late-60s/early 70s crisis. But we should not forget that it also presented the policymakers dealing that crisis something that more heterodox approaches did not: parsimony.
from In Praise of Blindspots by Suresh Naidu
“it presented the policymakers…with… parsimony”
Building Open Models Responsibly in the Gemini Era
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.