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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ladybugs@lemmy.world to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

A lot of us here hate AI because of how it was built: training data gathered without the creators' explicit, opt-in consent, data centers that negatively affect communities' access to clean water and energy, a technology design that is inherently prone to hallucinations, etc. At least, those are the main reasons why I hate it.

I think I might actually want to support an AI project if I thought it was being done right. Maybe we could get more people away from exploitative models if there was a non-exploitative alternative.

So what would it take to build AI ethically, in your opinion? And do you know of anyone trying to build AI without these issues?

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[-] JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 5 points 1 day ago

There's https://apertvs.ai/ probably as close as it gets. Government funded, made by universities. Afaik its datacenter is powered by hydro. But it is an academic project, so still uses common crawl and other publicly available datasets, which is considered ok practice in academia but still means consent is opt out, if something is publicly available. And of course no one uses this, because no marketing and it's not as 'good' as models trained on stolen data.

Plus you could still argue that the energy and tax payer money could be better spent elsewhere.

[-] ratrace@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Universities are the tip of the baby killing military industrial complex. you people are all so silly. There is no such thing as ethical AI.

[-] FatherPeanut@pawb.social 1 points 8 hours ago

We live in capitalism, nothing doesn't contribute to the orphan crushing machine, but we can still try.

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