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Mozilla [claims to be] building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
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[–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Reading the article, I think at least to oppose centralised players that DoS the internet, congest our electricity infrastructure and pollute the environment, and try to bypass democracy through regulatory capture. That captures quite a few of the dark sides of the current AI hype that I'm unhappy about, so let's hope that works out.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    How do they propose to fight bot-crawlers, environmental damage and regulatory capture by creating more AI?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Steelmanning the argument, I'd say: you could outcompete the companies doing those things, e.g. by giving people AI that runs on their device and is ethically trained.

    It might seem hard to compete at the moment, but given that there'd be no costs to running them, I don't think it's necessarily impossible: even if the quality is lower, it's very hard to beat free.

    Hopefully, if the OpenAIs of this world go bankrupt, they'll stop hammering, say, OpenStreetMap.

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