TemetN t1_jed01g3 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:49 AM

I'd go so far as to call it dangerous honestly, and we can see that in the struggle for basic things. Many of which are much more normalized in less significant fields simply due to mass participation. On the plus side there is at least more public funding for research now, but I am glad to see larger calls for a massive public project on this.

Scarlet_pot2 OP t1_jed0f3l wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:52 AM

A public project would be great. I'm sure there are thousands of people willing to get involved. We probably have at least a few hundred on this sub. The main thing would be to get organized and spread the word, which is ironically difficult in this age of the internet

TemetN t1_jed0uhc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:56 AM

LAION launched a petition for one, but the petition site is down for maintenance currently. Bad timing honestly.

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Scarlet_pot2 OP t1_jed1kio wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:02 AM

That's definitely a positive move. The only issue is that people at LAION will probably decide who gets access and when. Still much better then corps or gov tho, but more projects would be good. Maybe a distributed training network where people could contribute compute over the internet? Along with a push to give anyone who wants it free training on ML / AI. Those two things would help decentralize AI