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Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla (www.quippd.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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TL;DR: Mozilla’s translation bot on Support Mozilla (that is currently overwriting user contributions is based on the closed source, copyright infringing LLM, Google Gemini. This is in spite of Mozilla claiming that they are at the forefront of open source AI, and belies their exhortations to choose to build open source AI and data sets. Although Mozilla has experience in attracting open contributions for data sets in projects like Common Voice, Mozilla is using a closed data set to overwrite open contributions. Since (paid) Gemini queries do not train the model, Mozillians can expect to correct errors every time the bot automatically updates an article.

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

Copyrights is mostly used by big companies to fuck with the competition so they can keep a strangle hold on the consumers.

It's a deeply flawed system not in any way to our advantage. Actually having copyright laws strengthened so they apply to AI training would instantly kill the open source scene and make certain only a handful of companies can afford to put out models.

Copyleft is built as a protection against big companies and how unfair the playing field is because of copyright laws. It's like saying crime is a good thing because without it, we wouldn't have a police force.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Not disagreeing with you - just saying that the legal underpinnings of open source are the copyright regime.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    I'm disagreeing with the positive spin you are trying to put on it. We have cops because of crime. Having cops is a good thing (mostly) but we wouldn't need them if there was no crime.

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