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European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading rules on track to take effect later this year.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament are poised to vote in favor of the Artificial Intelligence Act five years after they were first proposed. The AI Act is expected to act as a global signpost for other governments grappling with how to regulate the fast-developing technology.

“The AI Act has nudged the future of AI in a human-centric direction, in a direction where humans are in control of the technology and where it — the technology — helps us leverage new discoveries, economic growth, societal progress and unlock human potential,” said Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian lawmaker who was a co-leader of the Parliament negotiations on the draft law.

Big tech companies generally have supported the need to regulate AI while lobbying to ensure any rules work in their favor. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman caused a minor stir last year when he suggested the ChatGPT maker could pull out of Europe if it can’t comply with the AI Act — before backtracking to say there were no plans to leave.

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[–] 9bananas@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meaning what?

meaning the models training data is what lets you work around or improve on that bias. without the training data, that's (borderline) impossible. so in order to tweak models and further development, you need to know what exactly went into the model, or you'll spend a lot of wasted time guessing around.

I omitted requirements on freely sharing it as implied, but otherwise?

you disregarded half of what makes an AI model. the half that actually results in a working model. without the training data, you'd only have some code that does...something.

and that something is entirely dependent on the training data!

so it's essential, not optional, for any kind of "open source" AI, because without it you're working with a black box. which is by definition NOT open source.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

@WalnutLum@lemmy.ml

Asking for the training data is more like asking for detailed design documentation in addition to source code, so that others can rewrite the code from scratch.

Neural networks are inherently black boxes. Knowing the training data does little to change that. Given the sheer volume of data used in training the interesting models, more than very high level knowledge is not possible in any case.

There are open datasets, as well as open models. If open source models are only those trained on open datasets, then we need a new word for the status of most models. As it is, open source model and open source dataset is pretty clear. There's no need to make it complicated.

If it also a requirement that the data itself should be downloadable, then open source AI would be illegal in many countries. Much of the data will be under copyright, meaning that it can't be shared in many countries. EG, the original Stable Diffusion was trained on an open dataset. The dataset only contained links to images, since sharing the actual images would have been illegal in their jurisdiction. Link rot being what it is, the original data was not available pretty quickly. It has been alleged that some of the links pointed to CSAM, so now even the links are a hot potato.

meaning the models training data is what lets you work around or improve on that bias. without the training data,

Do you have any source that explains how this would work?