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"In the eyes of big AI companies such as OpenAI, the troves of data on the
internet are highly valuable. They scrape photos, videos, books, blog posts,
albums, painting, photographs and much more to train their products such as
ChatGPT – usually without any compensation to or consent from the creators.
In fact, OpenAI and Google are arguing that a part of American copyright law,
known as the “fair use doctrine”, legitimises this data theft. Ironically,
OpenAI has also accused other AI giants of data scraping “its” intellectual
property.
First Nations communities around the world are looking at these scenes with
knowing familiarity. Long before the advent of AI, peoples, the land, and their
knowledges were treated in a similar way – exploited by colonial powers for
their own benefit.
What’s happening with AI is a kind of “digital colonialism”, in which powerful
(mostly Western) tech giants are using algorithms, data and digital
technologies to exert power over others, and take data without consent. But
resistance is possible – and the long history of First Nations resistance
demonstrates how people might go about it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
