Creative Commons has been exploring how copyright law and tools apply to the generative AI space for many years. Mozilla has recently announced the launch of Mozilla.ai, a new startup tasked with “building a trusted, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem.”

It is time to find ways to manage both the open resources and the AI solutions built on top of them in a way that is more sustain -able and reduces harm

The challenge for the open movement is already clear: build an alternative to corporate, closed machine learning systems. And to protect the commons from exploitation by these systems.

Establish a coordination mechanism that reduces duplication and overlap among partnersand projects and combines efforts,

The key is that knowledge is a human endeavor, and the development of Wikipedia and its sister projects depends on human collaboration and consensus. Machine learning tools can augment the process, but AI cannot replace volunteer Wikimedians.