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The old ideals of free flow of, access, and sharing of information that propelled the open movement in the early 2000s are ill-equipped to address the challenges of the modern internet related to the surveillance and profiling of users and the add-based business model of companies that dominate the internet landscape. Because of the evolution of... See more

Another proposed solution would entail technical means of tracking uses of openly shared works, which could benefit from advances in web technologies. These tools would make downstream (re)uses of content traceable and, therefore, legible to licensors, creating opportunities to interact with users and potentially enforce additional norms

the way in which TikTok enables creativity and community building by supporting the reuse of soundtracks, stitching, and dueting, leading to cultural phenomena founded on collaboration

The second is the idea of “gray swan” events, which are both predictable and unprecedented. Together, these two ideas explain how we will face a rush of extremes, all scientifically imaginable but utterly new to human experience.

First, there is the ownership and control over the use of assets created on and by these platforms. In most cases, the terms and conditions that we agree to when using digital platforms – or indeed the licences that we adopt – grant both platform owners and third parties permission to reuse our assets in ways that may technically meet licensing... See more

“We’ve had artificial-intelligence tools and bots since 2002, and we’ve had a team dedicated to machine learning since 2017,” Selena Deckelmann, Wikimedia’s chief technology officer, told me. “They’re extremely valuable for semiautomated content review, and especially for translations.

Wikipedia is probably the most important single source in the training of A.I. models

How do you solve that by collecting everything? Because even if you’re collecting it and it’s right there, they don’t want to believe it.

Some may. All we can do is to collect it and make it easily available. What’s exciting to me is that not only can we now see that there are these separate worlds, but also we can see across universes. We can see... See more

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.