David Gray WidderGreat write up from @willknight in @WIRED about Sarah Myers West, @Mer__edith and my new piece:
➡️ The rhetoric of "open" AI is misleading. Why? In short, because AI is controlled by Big Tech.
Daniel Hakimi@davidthewid @willknight @WIRED @Mer__edith Oh, so it's not open source at all. Seems like a big failure of tech media, to call proprietary software open source.
Meredith Whittaker@DanHakimi @davidthewid @willknight @WIRED Our paper goes into the dynamics more deeply, linked below. It's not simply a failure of media -- many technologists and corporate PR departments are also complicit.