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?
Should use LLM instead of the marketing term
In lieu of what term? LLM is a subset of Transformers which itself is a subset of ML models. So you should really only use that term if you mean that narrow subset. That would leave off diffusion models which itself has maybe the lion’s share of ethical concerns regarding stolen art.
Instead of AI, because its definitely not intelligence as you yourself just explained
But that would be imprecise in this context, since the poster is referring to at least both LLM’s and diffusion models. AI doesn’t have intelligence; that’s what the “A” means. And it is a suitable term for the broad set of technologies that you and I both know it means and has been in use for decades predating the LLM craze.