Seed Bank, Co-op, Stoop Swap

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Alicia Guo, University of Washington Carly Schnitzler, Johns Hopkins University Katy Gero, University of Sydney Many popular language models today are created by large, for-profit technology companies and serve the goals of these corporations. Can we envision a co-operative language model that challenges existing notions of how technology is created and who it can serve? Many popular language models today are built by large technology companies, trained on massive datasets of scraped web text and books, often without the authors’ consent or knowledge, then marketed back to the public for generating the kinds of writing authors produce professionally. But not all creators are against the technology itself, but instead are troubled by the ways in which the technology is currently being created, governed and used. We make this distinction because critiques of nonconsensual data collection, the colonial or extractive nature of data use and the negative impact on artist industries at large

Many popular language models today are created by large, for-profit technology companies and serve the goals of these corporations. Can we envision a co-operative language model that challenges existing notions of how technology is created and who it can serve? Toward Community Models Many popular language models today are built by large technology companies, trained on massive datasets of scraped web text and books, often without the authors’ consent or knowledge, then marketed back to the public for generating the kinds of writing authors produce professionally. But not all creators are…

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