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Meredith Whittaker

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@sarahbmyers, @davidthewid & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41586-024

Abstract This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about ‘open’ AI often lack precision, frequently eliding scrutiny of substantial industry concentration in large-scale AI development and deployment, and often incorrectly applying understandings of ‘open’ imported from free and open-source software to AI systems. At present, powerful actors are seeking to shape policy using claims that ‘open’ AI is either beneficial to innovation and democracy, on the one hand, or detrimental to safety, on the other. When policy is being shaped, definitions matter. To add clarity to this debate, we examine the basis for claims of openness in AI, and offer a material analysis of what AI is and what ‘openness’ in AI can and cannot provide: examining models, data, labour, frameworks, and computational power. We highlight three main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. However, we find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI. Just as many traditional open-source software projects were co-opted in various ways by large technology companies, we show how rhetoric around ‘open’ AI is frequently wielded in ways that exacerbate rather than reduce concentration of power in the AI sector.
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Justin ⏚

@Mer__edith The fact that these big for-profit companies are open-source washing ("decentralized" BlueSky looking at you here too) makes me optimistic that those software terms are starting to have some mainstream appeal, since why else (mis)use them?

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@Mer__edith
made this like a year ago... the machine is still bullshitting...

give us all your data and we'll see what we do with it... a logo made out of locks and underneath the words Blackbox LIE are written
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Asbestos

@Mer__edith

@blogdiva
There is absolutely nothing that gets this amount of money pumped in to it that democratizes anything, Ever.

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