Does anyone know of any attempts out there of building more ethical AI models for things like text LLM, image or audio processing?
To clarify, I am talking about an AI model which is trained on a dataset of public domain, creative commons, licensed, or more intentionally fair use sampling methods.
Personally, I believe that the way the modern AI industry has built their giant models is incredibly exploitative, unethical, toxic to society and culture, and arguably not even consistent with the letter or spirit of the existing rules by which we have all been asked to play.
As a tool, machine learning may not be fundamentally bad, but who, if anyone, is out there trying to do it in better, more legitimate way?
Supposedly, Adobe’s image generation models were trained exclusively on images that are either public domain or which Adobe specifically owns legal rights to.
That’s not fully ethical, probably, because a lot of the people who made those images and signed the rights to Adobe probably weren’t aware of the ramifications of doing so, and may not have agreed for them to be used in AI training if they were given an informed choice in the matter.
But if their claims about their training data are true, then at least you can rest assured that it technically isn’t violating anybody’s legal copyright.