Gregory's ServerAs coauthors & I show (paper👇), “open” AI can, in some forms, ensure transparency+ reusability+ extensibility. This is good. But it *does not* level the playing field in the concentrated AI industry: the resources needed to create/deploy AI remain in the hands of a few firms. 3/
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Again, "open" AI does good things. BUT any meaningful social benefit from “open” AI will only be possible if we ALSO SIMULTANEOUSLY reduce concentrated power of the AI industry. & any proposal that leaves this unsaid risks ramifying, not alleviating, current BigTech dominance. 5/ Paper referenced above, here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807  |
Nor does openness necessarily reduce harm, in a context where the resources required to create/deploy AI at scale remain concentrated in the hands of a few corps.
Indeed, as in the case of Meta, "open" AI (like FOSS beofre it) can be leveraged to extend market dominance. 4/