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We need your support to continue our work</span>. <a href="https://www.classy.org/give/313412/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=website&c_src2=temp-banner">Donate today!</a></p> </article> <span id="main-content-marker"></span> <main> <header> <h1>An Invitation for Creators, Activists, and Stewards of the Open Movement</h1> <span class="byline">by <a href="https://creativecommons.org/person/shannon-hong/">Shannon Hong</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/person/cc/">Creative Commons</a> </span>  <span class="categories"> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/licenses-tools/" rel="category tag">Licenses & Tools</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/category/policy/" rel="category tag">Policy</a></span>  </header>  <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear Open Movement Creators, Activists, and Stewards, </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A key question facing Creative Commons as an organization, and the open movement in general, is how we will respond to the challenge of shaping artificial intelligence (AI) towards the public interest, growing and sustaining a thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So much of generative AI is built on the digital infrastructure of the commons and uses the vast quantity of images, text, video, and rich data resources of the internet. Organizations train their models with trillions of tokens from publicly available datasets like CommonCrawl, GitHub open source projects, Wikipedia, and ArXiV.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Access to the commons has enabled incredible innovations while creating the conditions for the concentration of power in entities that are able to amass the immense energy and data needed to train AI models. Community consultations at conferences like </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/04/generative-ai-opportunities-concerns-solutions-from-mozfest-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MozFest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, RightsCon, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/07/dispatches-from-wikimania-values-for-shaping-ai-towards-a-better-internet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimania</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/08/what-does-the-cc-community-think-about-regulating-generative-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> have also revealed concerns about transparency, bias, fairness, and attribution in AI.</span></p> <h2><b>Alignment Assembly</b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To start addressing some of these challenges, between 13 February and 15 March, </span><a href="https://openfuture.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Open Future</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will host an asynchronous, virtual alignment assembly for the open movement to explore principles and considerations for regulating generative AI. We hope to reach participants spread across different fields of open and coming from different regions of the world. We are organizing the assembly in partnership with Open Future and </span><a href="https://web.karisma.org.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fundación Karisma</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to bring to the conversation the perspectives of:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Activists and experts, including digital rights advocates and legal experts</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stewards: people from organizations that steward collections that are part of the digital commons such as Wikimedia, open access repositories, and cultural heritage collections</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creators: people who create works that form part of the digital commons, broadly: not only visual artists and musicians but also researchers who do open science or open source programmers</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will use the process of an alignment assembly, an experiment in collective deliberation and decision-making. This model is pioneered by the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), led by Divya Siddarth and Saffron Huang. The model has been used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and the government of Taiwan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can sign up to take part in the process by registering your interest </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/openfuture.eu/alignment-assembly-2024"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (we will only use the contact information to invite you to the assembly and to provide updates and delete it once the assembly process is complete).</span></p> <h2><b>Background</b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creative Commons has long been considering the intersection of copyright and AI. CC submitted comments to the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2020/02/20/cautious-approach-to-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Intellectual Property Organization’s consultations on copyright and AI</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in 2020. When considering usage of CC-licensed work in AI, the organization explored in 2021 </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Should CC-licensed work be used to train AI”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">More recently, CC carried out consultations at </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/05/04/generative-ai-opportunities-concerns-solutions-from-mozfest-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">MozFest</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, RightsCon, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/07/dispatches-from-wikimania-values-for-shaping-ai-towards-a-better-internet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wikimania</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/08/what-does-the-cc-community-think-about-regulating-generative-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">CC Global Summit</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, while publishing ongoing analysis of the AI landscape.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ahead of the Creative Commons Global Summit last year, Creative Commons and Open Future hosted a workshop on generative AI and its impact on the commons. The group agreed and released a </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/10/07/making-ai-work-for-creators-and-the-commons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">set of principles on “Making AI work for Creators and the Commons</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.” Now, we would like to test and expand this work. </span></p> <h2><b>Outcome</b></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons builds on and continues all of this work.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We treat the </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/2023/10/07/making-ai-work-for-creators-and-the-commons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">principles</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> as a starting point. We are using the alignment assembly methodology and the pol.is tool to understand where there is consensus and which principles generate controversy. In particular, how much alignment there is between the perspectives of activists, creators, and stewards of the commons.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the process, we will produce a report with the outcomes of the assembly and a proposal for a refined set of principles. As the policy debate about the commons and AI develops, we hope the assembly will provide insights into better regulation of generative AI.</span></p> <p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/openfuture.eu/alignment-assembly-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sign up here to share your thoughts on regulating generative AI.</span></a></p>  <span class="pub-date">Posted 11 February 2024</span> <article class="tags"> <h2>Tags</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/artificial-intelligence/">artificial intelligence</a></li> <li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/better-internet/">Better Internet</a></li> <li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/generative-ai/">Generative AI</a></li> <li><a href="https://creativecommons.org/tag/policy/">policy</a></li> </ul> </article> <article class="related-posts"> <h2>Related posts</h2> <article class="authored-posts highlight"> <article> <header> <h2><a 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