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Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” (musictech.com)

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The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people, and I have less and less interest in what those people think, and more and more criticisms of what the effect of their work has been.

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[–] p03locke 6 points 3 months ago (13 children)

So, make it not owned by the same people.

Support open-source models. Most of this shit are research papers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (10 children)

The definition of "open source" AI sucks. It could just mean that the generated model weights are shared under an open source license. If you don't have the code used to train the model under an open source license, or you can't fully reproduce the model using the code they share and open source datasets, then calling a model "open source" feels weird as hell to me.

At the same time, I don't know of a single modern model that only used training data that was taken with informed consent from the creators of that data.

[–] chicken 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

tbf the widely used nomenclature for them is "open weights", specifically to draw that distinction. There are genuinely open source models, in that the training data and everything is also documented, just not as many.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The OSI doesn't require open access to training data for AI models to be considered "open source", unfortunately. https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

I agree that "open weights" is a more apt description, though

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