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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

@Mer__edith

Ha. I'd wondered what was meant by 'Open' AI.

@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?

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

@Mer__edith

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