Models

Lisa Macpherson (Public Knowledge) and Anna Tumadóttir (Creative Commons) recently published Creating a New Internet Bargain to Preserve Fair Use and Protect the Commons in Tech Policy Press. They do an excellent job of describing the difficulty that the web commons finds itself in. But I got confused when I reached the part about proposed legislation that would require LLM providers to disclose what content they used to train their models, such as in the TRAIN ACT. The authors actually make a good case for disclosure first, but then backpedal it: Imagine if large technology companies had disclosed their training sources all along. That could have steered us towards quality on all fronts, limiting the mess we now find ourselves in. Instead, lawmakers around the world are considering legislation that would require AI developers to disclose the sources they use for training. Both of our organizations are interested in the benefits of transparency. But Public Knowledge, in particular, is…

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