Posted 1/18/2024, 4:48:04 PM
AI Researcher Resigns and Launches Nonprofit to Promote Ethical Data Usage
- Ed Newton-Rex resigned from AI company over disagreement about copyright and training models on scraped data without consent
- Lawsuits filed against AI companies by New York Times, Sarah Silverman, artists, alleging illegal use of copyrighted works to train AI
- Newton-Rex launched nonprofit "Fairly Trained" to certify AI models trained only on consented data
- Goal is to incentivize respecting creator rights by elevating companies with better training data practices
- Approach relies on trust and company disclosures about data sources, does not audit actual datasets