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PAI’s Guidance for Safe Foundation Model Deployment

We’ve digitized 2.5 million books. Google has as well, but they’re locked up. They locked up the public domain, which we think of as a sin. The library sort of made elite services around it just for themselves.

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.

Over the past decade it has become a kind of factual netting that holds the whole digital world together.

More research is needed in this context to understand the relationship between research institutions and commercial entities, particularly in light of the excep -tions for non-commercial and research uses.

Specific AI system regulations, such as the European AI Act or the AI Bill of Rights in the United States (both of which have yet to be adopted), may include rules that govern the development and management of AI training datasets. Other laws are also applicable. The Digital Services Act, recently adopted in the European Union, requires platforms t... See more

the Wikimedia Enterprise initiative, which launched in 2021. It offers paid, enterprise-grade APIs suitable for building commercial solutions on top of Wikipedia content. And Google is one of its first customers (the second is the Internet Archive).

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After working in fashion e-commerce for years I've come to the conclusion that in e-commerce we do not sell clothes... we sell images of clothes. Compressed, digital versions of physical products. As Roland Barthes pointed out in The Fashion System, a product image is a symbol or metaphor of a product. Media--in this case images--mediates ... See more