Why the AI evaluation crisis could force a reckoning on dataset provenance, attribution, and consent.

A proposal for interoperable attestation objects that connect training data, evaluation labor, and AI-generated outputs across the AI supply chain.

Event: Can decentralists cooperate? Rethinking commons and collective action in the age of platforms and AI

An interactive explainer for a unifying frame across valuation, scaling, selection, poisoning, privacy, and collective action.

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Back to the basics of data leverage.

How we can understand, and react to, the complicated impacts of AI systems on online communities and knowledge commons

The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

Accelerating science writing and collaboration with AI.

On user data control, coding agents as retrievers, and the value of your coding transcripts

Sharing an early reaction to recent coding agent discourse and two relevant projects

A coalition to build public AI

In fact, anyone who doesn't think they will be a "big winner" long term benefits from clear rules, even if it means training data costs more in the short term.

The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet

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Reacting to a fresh wave of discussion about AI's impact on the economy and power concentration, and reiterating the potential role of collective bargaining.

Google and others solve our attentional problem by ranking discrete bundles of information, whereas ChatGPT ranks more granular chunks. This lens can help us reason about AI policy.

A consortium of Public AI labs can substantially improve data pricing, which may also help to concretize debates about the ethics and legality of training practices.

Current research in “plural alignment” concentrates on making AI models amenable to diverse human values. But plurality is not simply a safeguard against bias or an engine of efficiency: it’s a key in...