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> But AI has given the nonprofit foundation and its cofounder Baker a fresh sense of mission in creating alternatives to tackle deepfakes, data privacy issues a
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
> But AI has given the nonprofit foundation and its cofounder Baker a fresh sense of mission in creating alternatives to tackle deepfakes, data privacy issues and the power of big tech. It launched a Mozilla.ai startup last year and Mozilla Corp. is focused on product extensions like Mozilla Monitor that wipe subscribers’ data off the web.
Ironically, it has been Facebook with its release of Llama models and hat you can run yourself that has actually increased end user power and control with respect to AI. Having something that you can run on your machine (either owned or rented) is intrinsically more empowering and private for the user than sending your data off to some other company subject to their rules and their notions of “safety”.
- lenerdenator 3y agoIt's also worth noting that Facebo - er - Meta has been one of the few to train its models on data it actually has an unambiguous legal right to.
- sp332 3y agoLlama models were trained on Books3.
- lenerdenator 3y agoOpe. Shit, nevermind then. I thought they'd pull it from, y'know, the massive dataset their users generate and that they have unambiguous legal rights to in perpetuity.