(31 Aug 2024) A new report from the Data Provenance Initiative, a volunteer collective of AI researchers, shines a light on what’s happening with all that data. The report, “Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons,” notes that a significant number of organizations that feel threatened by generative AI are taking measures to wall off their data. IEEE Spectrum spoke with Shayne Longpre, a lead researcher with the Data Provenance Initiative, about the report and its implications for AI companies.
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