This Tech Exec Quit His Job to Fight Generative AI's Original Sin | WIRED

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Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. After his high-profile departure, Newton-Rex threw himself into conversation after conversation about what building AI ethically would look like in practice. “It struck me that there are a lot of people who want to use generative AI models that treat creators fairly,” he says. “If you can give them better decisionmaking tools, that’s helpful.” Ed Newton-Rex's nonprofit is trying to encourage companies to be more thoughtful about sourcing training data for AI projects. Now Newton-Rex has launched a new nonprofit, Fairly Trained, to give people exactly that type of decisionmaking tool. It offers a certification program to identify AI companies that license their training data. The AI industr

Save this story Save this story Ed Newton-Rex says generative AI has an ethics problem. He ought to know, because he used to be part of the fast-growing industry. Newton-Rex was TikTok’s head AI designer and then an executive at Stability AI until he quit in disgust in November over the company’s stance on collecting training data. After his high-profile departure, Newton-Rex threw himself into conversation after conversation about what building AI ethically would look like in practice. “It struck me that there are a lot of people who want to use generative AI models that treat creators fairly

This Tech Exec Quit His Job to Fight Generative AI's Original Sin | WIRED

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