Season 7 · Episode 1
Open Source AI and Copyright: Building Ethical Models | Kent Keirsey
Kicking off Open Source Data Season 7, Charna Parkey welcomes the CEO and Founder of Invoke, Kent Keirsey to discuss his thoughts on licensing, copyright in generative AI, and the role of communities in building ethical, free-to-use technologies that can democratize technology and inspire global innovation.
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Episode Transcript
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Kent Keirsey - "When we look at open source models, if you just release the weights, and you don't really release information on how the data set was captioned, for example, or how you construct the data set, if you don't really know how it got to the artifact that was released, as a user, you do not understand how it works."
Charna Parkey - But there's still a lot of claims by big tech right now about how anything on the internet should be fair use for training, even if, you know, it might have its own kind of copyright
Key timestamps
[00:02:00] - Kent Keirsey on his journey to open source
[00:06:00] - Kent Keirsey on the Open Model Initiative (OMI)
[00:08:00] -What makes a model truly open source
[00:12:00] - The legal landscape of AI and copyright
[00:14:00] - Kent Keirsey on the ethical implications of AI training data fair and use and AI development
[00:26:00] Creativity, AI tools, personal AI models and recommendation algorithms:
[00:32:00] - Kent Keirsey on TikTok and cultural clash:
[00:38:00] - AI, self-reflection and a decision-making tool
[00:42:00] - The Bria AI partnership
[00:52:00] - The future of creativity, AI and Robotics:
[01:00:00] - Final thoughts with producer Leo Godoy