Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features.
“Everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features.”
#bigai
At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not free as in “freedom”) but at least their original licenses (non-commercial, share-alike, no derivatives, and yes, sometimes even just attribution) were genuinely useful for people as well as for corporations.
I like to think (perhaps naïvely, I don’t know) that Lawrence Lessig had his heart in the right place when he came up with it all. But I’m biased. I learned how to present from him (including how to use my presentation display) and we even presented a session together back in the day when I was running Open Source Flash. I’m also a big fan of his concept of “institutional corruption”. But I have no illusions that we see eye to eye on all things and I haven’t spoken to him in over a decade.
Anyway, that’s neither here nor there.
This is Creative Commons jumping the shark (is jumping the shark the original enshittification?) and destroying their credibility with a scheme that doesn’t benefit people, only their corporate donors.
Keep using the existing licenses, as they have value, but don’t help them legitimise this latest land grab by the same trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires who are busy destroying our habitat, human rights, and democracy.
In fact, if they go ahead with this, it might be an idea to fork the original Creative Commons licenses and publish them under a different name in an effort to counter the use of their legitimacy to whitewash Big AI.
#CreativeCommons #SiliconValley #BigTech #BigAI #AI https://mastodon.cloud/@raymondpert/114754532045016792
OMG, it features "Big AI"!
#BigAI
“Even by #SiliconValley’s historically rarefied standards, #BigAI is spending stratospheric amounts on talent this year. #Meta (Facebook) has invested $15bn in #ScaleAI, a #data labelling start-up that claims just 900 #employees.
Scale’s 28-year-old chief executive, #AlexanderWang, will take up a job at a new Meta lab devoted to creating #AI “#superintelligence”. His cash and equity in the deal is reported to be worth some $5bn, making him one of the most expensive so-called “#AcquiHires” on record.”
#AGI <https://www.ft.com/content/9e9fde8e-37bd-477d-8ebc-6d0a8b70f246> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/pwK9X>
I shared this on FB but wanted to post here too. Prompted by ppl like Paris Marx recent posts.
Technosocial contracts could gate #bigtech access, and mitigate the unsustainable stealing of open web knowledge by extractive #BigAI for vast profit.
All #universities shld run prof dev in #DigitalSovereignty, what it means, affects, how it works. Its part of basic #digitalliteracy for #academia to have an informed criticality about what is going on in the world.
Microsoft Copilot Recall remains a privacy nightmare.
2/2 https://www.news.co.uk/latest-news/make-it-fair/
Crucially, the approach of the UK Creative Industries’ Make It Fair campaign - of resisting AI ‘piracy’ by preserving or strengthening copyright law - ignores what Bellos and Montagu make clear in Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Copywrongs:
• Copyright is a major driver of inequality in the twenty-first century.
• It plays a pivotal but often overlooked role when it comes to understanding the roots of disparities of wealth in modern societies.
• the wealthiest corporations globally derive their power primarily from owning copyright and patents, with ‘sixteen of the fifty richest people in the world’ amassing their fortunes entirely or partially from copyright-related industries.
What’s so fair about this?
Spent a full day at @EUCommission as expert in a foresight workshop on the impact of #AI on #democracy.
We tried to come up with some positive scenarios too, but that was much harder than dystopian ones, like #BigTech's take-over of politics & state capture by Big Tech.
Centralised #BigAI thinks that centralised nuclear plants will save their business model while the people are moving towards decentralised electricity production, storage, distribution and use. What approach will centralised government decide to promote after talking to the centralised grid owners that they created through privatisation? #FilmAt11
#AI #GenerativeAI #BigTech #BigAI #Competition #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition: "Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping how we live, work and connect with the world. From chatbots to image generators, AI is transforming our online experiences. But this change raises serious questions: Who controls the technology behind these AI systems? And how can we ensure that everyone — not just traditional big tech — has a fair shot at accessing and contributing to this powerful tool?
To explore these crucial issues, Mozilla commissioned two pieces of research that dive deep into the challenges around AI access and competition: “External Researcher Access to Closed Foundation Models” (commissioned from data rights agency AWO) and “Stopping Big Tech From Becoming Big AI” (commissioned from the Open Markets Institute). These reports show how AI is being built, who’s in control and what changes need to happen to ensure a fair and open AI ecosystem."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/unlocking-ai-research/
#BigAI reminds me of that kid in high school who knocked on everyone's door asking to pirate every floppy disc they had in the house. Except the asking part.
Is #bigai sitting on loads of innovations because ~their~ they're [yes I did] afraid of the fallout? Has that ever happened before? (outside of the #fireworks industry)
If so, thank you/fuck you.
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