The Paradox of Open: Can Digital Commons Offer a Way Forward?
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Argues that openness both enables and is co-opted into concentrated power, citing concrete cases: 400 million CC photos from Flickr get scraped into facial‑recognition datasets and survey respondents report fear, disgust, sadness and anger; modern models show Llama 2 non‑compete license and Falcon restrictions that block cloud use, exposing compute and data as bottlenecks. Calls for public fixes — regulation plus big investment and a European public digital infrastructure fund, plus participatory principles and dataset governance prototypes already piloted.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 12:22Paradox of open explained
- 24:42Open washing in AI
- 36:32Digital commons as solution
- 41:51Q&A session
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