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establishing transparency as a principle that increases the social value of these systems and democratizes these technologies.

Jimmy Wales described it in 2004, was to create “a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” The following year, Wales also stated, “We help the internet not suck.

here are two basic approaches to creating AI datasets. The first one, which is typical of the case we have been studying, a pool of open works is purposefully chosen to ensure license compliance. The second approach creates the dataset by scraping the “raw internet” and relying on copyright exceptions. LAION , a dataset of 400 million image-text... See more

Each side accuses the other of bad faith, and calls its opponents well-funded zealots who won’t listen to reason and want to destroy the culture.

openness is about more than access to and use of assets. It is about how we build and maintain our communities. The second challenge, then, and one that is just as important, is to re-examine how we create a community in the digital world .

Maybe we should be spending more time and effort within academia, within government, within our general lives to go and invest in things that aren’t going to end up putting us in a cage that we’re going to regret later. Is that a bit of a plea and a cry? Yes, it is. But Wikipedia is the No. 5 most popular website of all websites. That’s pretty... See more