Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models (www.pcmag.com)
from otter@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 12 Apr 2024 16:08
https://lemmy.ca/post/19224412

Mozilla and a host of other researchers are urging US officials to see value in open-source AI models when considering future regulation.

Mozilla and a cohort of nearly 50 nonprofit organizations, AI firms, and academic researchers have signed and sent a letter to the US Department of Commerce’s Secretary Gina Raimondo, advocating for increased transparency and true openness in AI development.

Mozilla and the Center for Democracy and Technology are key signatories, but many others including Creative Commons, EleutherAI, the Computing Research Association, and Accountable Tech are also backing the letter.

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otter@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 16:11 next collapse

The letter:

cdt.org/…/Civil-Society-Letter-on-Openness-for-NT…

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca on 12 Apr 2024 19:32 next collapse

Above all else, the training data needs to be open. It’s not really free software if the model is trained using a proprietary blend of training data. And it also opens the door for training data to be obtained unethically (which we know the AI companies are already doing)

sandman@lemmy.ca on 13 Apr 2024 17:51 collapse

No it doesn’t.

And it also opens the door for training data to be obtained unethically

Ethics are subjective.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca on 13 Apr 2024 20:24 collapse

The only people who say shit like that as a defence are people that 90% of people would agree are behaving unethically. Just because ethics overall are subjective doesn’t mean there aren’t some obvious right and wrong answers.

teleprintme@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 2024 06:35 next collapse

Link is broken and gets a 404. It was a typo on the end.

pcmag.com/…/mozilla-pushes-feds-open-transparent-…

otter@lemmy.ca on 13 Apr 2024 06:51 collapse

Thank you, fixed!

Cossty@lemmy.world on 13 Apr 2024 15:47 collapse

Mozilla send them letter with signatures. Microsoft and OpenAI will send them money. I wonder which will they choose.