Joel E. Fischer &ndash; Mixed Reality Laboratory, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Generative AI Considered Harmful
[⁷This article is written for the CUI 2023 “Provocations” track that “should have the potential to spark debate and discussion at the conference”] [...] It's worth noting that the lack of attribution starts with Common Crawl and similar archives; they appear to erase authorship and ownership of its sources, the largely human-written contents on websites. Instead of a heterogeneous collection of web sites (i.e., the WWW), it becomes just one homogeneous and anonymous “dataset”. This coincides with a worrying trend of these archives to frame their work as contributing to notions of “open data” and asking for “data donation” without explicating stance on ownership (you lose it) and attribution (there is none)¹⁰. [¹⁰https://commoncrawl.org/big-picture/what-you-can-do/]