🔍 New proposal: A vocabulary for opting out from AI training & text/data mining.
Based on interaction with a broad range of stakeholders, this proposal aims to give creators and other rightholders more control over how their works are used for AI training through practical, machine-readable standards.
📄 Full paper & vocabulary: https://openfuture.eu/publication/a-vocabulary-for-opting-out-of-ai-training-and-other-forms-of-tdm/
#ParadoxOfOpen #AITraining
New piece by Mariana Mazzucato argues that there's no "collective intelligence" without the "common good". Probably obvious to most of people here. She makes a good argument for the not-yet convinced.
And "collective intelligence" is indeed becoming an overly-romantic buzzword and narrative.
Same risk, by the way, appllies to narratives about communities and communal governance.
Yesterday, our Director of Research, Zuzanna Warso, opened the @berlinbuzzwords conference by talking about the #ParadoxofOpen and #PublicDigitalInfrastructure built around #DigitalCommons. You can watch the recording of the talk here 📺 https://youtu.be/R1ZCCkcIdFQ?si=3QbyyL84woaYgi3W
📎 Our new report by https://mastodon.scot/@isitadityasingh examines challenges associated with data-driven interventions to the climate crisis, particularly those involving #OpenData 👉 https://openfuture.eu/publication/open-with-purpose-ethical-issues-and-stewardship-mechanisms-for-open-climate-data/ #ResponsibleData #ParadoxOfOpen
It's good to see the issue of #OpenSourceAI making waves in mainstream media 👀 Sarah Kessler mentions our work & quotes @tarkowski while describing "openwashing," in her regular feature for The New York Times 👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/business/what-is-openwashing-ai.html #ParadoxOfOpen #OpenSource
The Cuckoo in Bidding: When the Manufacturer Loses to Itself by Peer Heinlein 💯
"OSS manufacturers must be financially compensated for their work to enable further development. When freeloaders enter bidding processes with cutthroat prices without manufacturer involvement, they strip the OSS ecosystem of its foundation. Various initiatives aim to ensure fair and sustainable use."
#FOSSBack #TragedyOfOpen #ParadoxOfOpen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8YJQLIw2EI&ab_channel=PlainSchwarz
I've been reading up on recent #OpenAccess developments, including proposals for new approaches like #DiamondOA.
The discussions are fascinating, and it's increasing clear to me that Open Access ecosystems are facing a case of what we call (at @openfuture ) the #ParadoxofOpen: OA faces the challenge of value extraction, in this case by the largest academic publishers.
It's just as fascinating to see solutions on the table: proposals for alternative publishing models that are more sovereign, civic, community-led. Basically: digital public infrastructures.
This recent news feature from Nature is a good starting point:
Early this month, we went to the @creativecommons Global Summit in Mexico City, where we co-hosted a workshop on #AI, Creators, and the Commons and organized sessions on the #ParadoxOfOpen & the future of the open movement. Here are our learnings https://openfuture.eu/event/creative-commons-global-summit-2023/ #DigitalCommons 🧶1/2
Jorge Gemetto from @articaonline wrote a good piece on #generativeAI, #freeknowledge and cultural rights.
(It's in Spanish, and worth translating if you don’t speak the language).
Jorge argues that the emerging tensions around AI and intellectual property are a tension between two business sectors: the technology and the publishing firms. And it largely ignores the interests and rights of creatives, other professionals (benefitting from free knowledge / free culture) and users.
He acknowledges what I call the #ParadoxofOpen: that corporations benefit disproportionately from the commons (and the case of generative AI training is one more example of that) - but argues that this is not a reason for a ‘reactionary’ approach that constraints the commons.
And finally there’s a smart take on the right to cultural expression and how that plays out with regard to access to generative AI systems.
This recent piece from @kaythaney strikes all the right ideas in framing today’s challenges faced by #openaccess / #openscience. And it’s in line with the #ParadoxofOpen framing that I’ve been working on.
Kaitlin argues that Open Access has become big business, and that revenues flow more quickly for the companies than the benefits for the communities producing knowledge. That’s the gist of the Paradox of Open: the commons are being exploited.
I like the point that thanks to OA, and through the exploitative modes of publishers, “OA is free to read but not free or affordable to publish”.
And Kaitlin argues that publishers would ideally dedicate a portion of profits back into the communities (the commons). +1 to that. That’s the reason that I really like the Wikimedia Enterprise project, which shows that payments back to the commons can be part of an open framework.
The problem wiki Wikimedia ENterprise is that it is voluntary - so the big question is, how can such redistribution be mandated?
A starting point would be for #openX communities (not just #OA / #openscience but also #opensource, for example, have a shared position on the need for such redistribution.
Open Knowledge Foundation debrief on a recent workshop that reviewed the Open Definition.
https://blog.okfn.org/2023/06/26/debriefing-the-open-definition-workshop-at-rightscon/
Two issues clearly stand out: (limitations on) purpose of use, and machine readability requirement.
The reading of the definition, in 2023, is heavily influenced by concerns over the use of open resources for #ML / #AI
The #ParadoxOfOpen meets #intelligence tradecraft:
The #open movement has been essential to much of what we love about the #internet. Even the #US #IntelligenceCommunity relies on #OpenSource info.
However, even good intentioned and accurate use of open information can undermine stakeholders of intelligence analysis, sometimes making things worse for *all* stakeholders.
Amy Zegart explains in this (#openAccess) chapter: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv310vm0j.7
“Addressing power imbalances in open ecosystems”, the January issue of our newsletter is out, and comes with:
✦ @tarkowski & @paulk reflect on the #ParadoxofOpen
✦ We are hiring a part-time Editor/Communication Specialist
✦ @paulk white paper proposing a European Public Digital Infrastructure Fund to build #DigitalPublicSpace, open for feedback until 27 January
✦ #AI_Commons final report
✦ … & more!
Read "Addressing power imbalances in open ecosystems" → https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/addressing-power-imbalances-in-open-ecosystems?e=57bf1da40d
“The #ParadoxofOpen is a new telling of the Paradox of Tolerance: as a tolerant society cannot tolerate the intolerant, open has to exclude those attempting enclosures – and requires gatekeeping.”
Read the opinion by Jan J. Zygmuntowski: https://openfuture.eu/blog/gatekeepers-of-open/
Our dear colleague Anna Mazgal wrote one of the excellent and provocative responses to the #ParadoxofOpen and about Wikimedia's challenges and ambitions. "The Paradox of Growth – Unintended consequences of Open" https://openfuture.eu/paradox-of-open-responses/the-paradox-of-growth-unintended-consequences-of-open/
"Exploring the Paradox of Open", our December newsletter is out and includes:
✦ the launch of “#ParadoxofOpen: Responses”
✦ our Call for Fellows for 2023 is open!
✦ Zuzanna Warso's analysis of the EU Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles
✦ EU to fund a project for a #PublicDomain Repository
✦ The #AI_Commons roundtable we organized in the U.S. with @creativecommons
✦ & more!
Read it here: https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/exploring-the-paradox-of-open?e=57bf1da40d
#Copyright wars are far from being over, writes @derekslater in his response to the #ParadoxofOpen.
We will launch the responses tomorrow at 17 CET, join us: https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/
Public memory will be endangered, as long as heritage institutions lack legal tools to preserve content in the digital public space - writes Carolina Botero in response to the #ParadoxofOpen.
Join the launch of our new anthology: https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/
In "How openness becomes exclusionary," one of the responses to the #ParadoxofOpen, Leonhard Dobusch warns that the #open movement has to tackle an intrinsic bias that leads to a lack of diversity across communities.
Join us for the launch of the publication on 30 Nov: https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/
Is #open really a goal in itself? Or is it a tool to achieve other objectives?
In "Beyond the fetish of open" @bodo responds to the #ParadoxofOpen.
Join us on 30 Nov for the launch of the publication: https://openfuture.eu/event/open-future-salon-2-launch-of-paradox-of-open-responses/
