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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

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🙏Anke! On theft, I see a distinction between AI for creative content(art, stories etc - a hard no) and AI for software. In programming there is a strong tradition of open access & sharing - using AI to parse the back catalogue seems a natural evolution to the process?

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James Carrier's avatar James Carrier @studiousbadger.bsky.social
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Such sharing requires consent on the part of the original authors, and frequently comes with some form of obligation to share forward within very specific constraints (FOSS/GNU, BSD etc). I'm not seeing much in the way of consent or concern with licensing? Quite the opposite.

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans's avatar Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social
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Also 🙏for the Forbes link. What I can't immediately assess is whether the efficiencies of running a faster less energy-intensive AI-improved piece of software outweighs the energy used for the AI query in the first place 🤔. This definitely needs more thought though so thanks for raising it!

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Dr Anke Marsh's avatar Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social
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Hello! AI has to be trained on something. How that something - the dataset(s) are obtained is a problem. Much is stolen, ie scraped from the internet. Other orgs are using proprietary datasets, are open/transparent/sharing and that’s good. But they are in the minority & this issue has to be resolved

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