

Tragedy of the (data) commons
Oct 25, 2024
Shayne Longprey, an MIT PhD student involved in the Data Provenance Initiative, and Robert Mahari, a researcher at MIT Media Lab and Harvard Law School, delve into key issues surrounding AI data ethics. They discuss the importance of transparency in AI training data and how the decline of publicly available datasets threatens innovation. Their insights from the study "Consent in Crisis" reveal the complexities of data provenance and attribution in generative AI, stressing the need for better consent protocols to safeguard community resources.
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