Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons – Open Future

"One of the most pressing questions facing open movement activists, creators, and organizations is how artificial intelligence (AI) will shape and affect the Digital Commons. So much of generative AI is built on the digital infrastructure of the commons and uses the vast quantity of images, text, video, and rich data resources of the internet. Organizations train their models with trillions of tokens from publicly available datasets like CommonCrawl, GitHub open source projects, Wikipedia, and ArXiV.

Access to the Commons has enabled incredible innovations while creating the conditions for the concentration of power in entities that are able to amass the immense energy and data needed to train a generative AI. Community consultations at conferences like Mozfest, RightsCon, Creative Commons Summit, and Wikimania have also revealed concerns about transparency, bias, fairness, and attribution in AI...."